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I'm really interested in harvesting surplus energy, energy that surrounds but we never really use.
Written by Ann Makosinski
My mom is from New Orleans. And all of my maternal relatives were there during Katrina. We couldn't even find my uncle for four months. We literally didn't know where he was. I had been there just four days before the storm hit.
Written by Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Most actors I'm in touch with are struggling financially.
Written by Sheryl Lee
But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.
Written by Penn Jillette
Ed Norton is probably one of the smartest people I've ever met.
Written by Cary Fukunaga
I used to train with my husband, Anthony Maina, but he is now too busy as a helicopter pilot, so we only run together when I do light jogging. I don't want to kill him before his next flight!
Written by Catherine Ndereba
When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.
Written by George S. Kaufman
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
Written by Jerry Saltz
Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.
Written by Greg Kinnear
I'm not very good with cars. They rebel against me.
Written by Terry Wogan
I love the passion you go through while you're creating.
Written by LeRoy Neiman
I'm someone who's seen firsthand the effects of gun violence. I've had to carry a gun to do my job in the war. And I know as well as anyone that this violence has no place on our streets, in our schools, in our concerts, so we've got to do something about it.
Written by Seth Moulton
I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someone's yard on the way home from school, I would go to the end of the block and turn.
Written by Amy Sedaris
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Wimbledon is the most prestigious tournament we have, and being able to win it with all the tradition, that's always been a dream of mine.
Written by Daniel Nestor
I recently finished a job, an HBO movie 'Getting On,' a very dark comedy. It comes from a British series of the same name. In this role I have no hair, no make up and no nails. I play a very small role; she is not over the top and sassy.
Written by Niecy Nash
Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
Written by Ambrose Bierce
I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.
Written by Kevin James
I love that feeling you get once you leave a cinema having just watched a movie during the day. Your eyes slowly adjust to the natural light, and your mind, being a little slower, takes its time to separate the images of film from the reality you are suddenly facing.
Written by Rhys Darby
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
Written by R. D. Laing
Art saved my life.
Written by Richard Cabral
No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.
Written by Pranab Mukherjee
I like travelling on my own. It means I'm completely free to think about what's around me.
Written by Robert Winston
I learned from my community how to shoot a gun, how to shoot it well. I learned how to make a damn good biscuit recipe. The trick, by the way, is frozen butter, not warm butter. But I didn't learn how to get ahead.
Written by J. D. Vance
Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy.
Written by Martin Freeman
A lot of our insights are based on the ways in which people spend time at museums. They're curious, open, interested, and engaging. They want to express themselves and see their own identity refracted through the museum's.
Written by Jake Barton
I left my job as an editorial assistant with Katie Couric at CBS to start our company. I think Katie has said being at CBS was the worst time in her career. They were cutting back their news and interactive budget. I just had this very distinct feeling that I wasn't in the spring of something: I was in the late fall.
Written by Alexa Hirschfeld
The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.
Written by Rick Moranis
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
Written by Joichi Ito
I don't understand people who want to leave a good job. To me, without being terribly judgmental, those are people who haven't gone through their stint of being out of work for long periods of time.
Written by Dinah Manoff

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