People who aren't complicated in real life come through as pretty bland on the screen. Most great performers are not very happy… — George Cukor Copy Share Image
I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to… — Al Seckel Copy Share Image
I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies. — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
At home in Devon, my wife Jessica does a huge proportion of the cooking - I do the basics. My timing is… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
I'm far from immune to the American, perhaps historically male, prejudice toward practical and physical competence; I hope I've also considered that… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I would have loved to record with Paul McCartney on some of his early solo recordings, wonderful music. Playing some lovely organ,… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order… — Alan Zweibel Copy Share Image
We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
'Arcadia' is obviously a play that's got interesting things in it that are perhaps quite hard to grasp. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening,… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
Perhaps misguidedly, I always admire the people who are so polished. — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
For the very top earners, vision and inspiration are essential. You need those to become the next Steve Jobs, but perhaps not… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In the United States, nobody needs to remind people of their own role or their own power in creating the future they… — Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki Copy Share Image
Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
