Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.

I actually like talking.

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes, reacted the same, etc. I think they were all just me in disguise.

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.

I do like to move and get physical in my movies.

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.

I wouldn't say 'Avatar' changed my life, but it definitely changed my career.

My children deserve to have the best, and now they will.

In my home state of Delaware, we've done our homework and worked hard and, as a result, we've made great strides in cleaning up our own air pollution. Unfortunately, a number of the upwind states to the west of us have not made the same commitment to reducing harmful pollution by investing in cleaner air.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.