In a secular age an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax in order to gain credit in the world.
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Marina Warner – When I was young I did actually mo…
When I was young I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.
Dana Carvey – I know it’s a cliche but the whole f…
I know it’s a cliche but the whole family is just whacked. I mean we’re all out of our minds. They’re the funniest most eccentric bizarre people I’ve ever met my siblings.
Kim Cattrall – My curiosity and my appetite for ev…
My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.
Kate Upton – If I can help and influence girls who…
If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that’s amazing.
David Bohm – Yet in spite of this world-wide syste…
Yet in spite of this world-wide system of linkages there is at this very moment a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere on an unparalleled scale.
Ryan Seacrest – Failure? Scared to death of it….
Failure? Scared to death of it.
Loretta Lynn – I believe in education and wish I h…
I believe in education and wish I had a better one.
Frances Farmer – I used to lie between cool clean …
I used to lie between cool clean sheets at night after I’d had a bath after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it and talk to God.
Donna Karan – Design is a constant challenge to ba…
Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe the practical with the desirable.
Harry Connick Jr. – My dad was the district attorn…
My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early ’70s when I was 5 years old my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.
Kenneth Branagh – Music and language are a vital e…
Music and language are a vital element. We as actors and directors offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.
Barry Commoner – Environmental quality was drastic…
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline – which prevented it from entering the environment.
T. E. Lawrence – All the revision in the world wil…
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes or fails to come in the first conception and revision only affects the detail and ornament alas!
Michael Stipe – So we just kind of created our own…
So we just kind of created our own thing and that’s part of the beauty of Athens: is that it’s so off the map and there’s no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene that it just became its own thing.
Richard Attenborough – At my age the only problem …
At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them but I know I’m safe calling them that. Although of course I adore them too.
Robert Bork – The purpose that brought the fourtee…
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law and equality not separation was written into the law.
Jim Jeffords – Since the day he came into office P…
Since the day he came into office President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation’s standing environmental laws some of which were signed into law by his father.
Alton Brown – I like television. I still believe t…
I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth – I just hate what is being done with it.
Howard Staunton – If either player abandon the gam…
If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger or in an otherwise offensive manner or by momentarily resigning the game or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire the game must be scored against him.
Amy Poehler – When you’re a stay-at-home mother yo…
When you’re a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it’s really boring but it’s not. It’s enriching and fulfilling and an amazing experience. And then when you’re a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.
David Hockney – I did come from a pretty independe…
I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
Corey Feldman – It was a great experience for a ki…
It was a great experience for a kid because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides so looking back on it it was the fondest experience of my childhood.
Jackie Chan – Don’t try to be like Jackie. There i…
Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
Jo Ann Emerson – America won the Cold War by prote…
America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.
Paul Feig – Period costume films are fun to discov…
Period costume films are fun to discover but they’re not relatable. It’s more ‘Wow that’s cool – did it really look like that back then?’ Whereas with a comedy you’re like ‘Yeah that’s me that’s my friends.’ No matter what I want people to relate.