When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.
Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.
It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.
You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.
I'm not averse to being in big commercial films.
Often confused with shyness, introversion does not imply social reticence or discomfort. Rather than being averse to social engagement, introverts become overwhelmed by too much of it, which explains why the introvert is ready to leave a party after an hour and the extravert gains steam as the night goes on.
I was an avid collector of Elvis' early stuff; for a young singer, he was an absolute inspiration. I soaked up what he did like blotting paper. It's the same as being in school - you learn by copying the maestro.
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Many years ago, when I lived in the mini-Siberia they call East Anglia, I was awakened in the early hours by the sound of a pantechnicon being loaded. Peeping through the curtains, I observed the grocer doing a runner with all his chattels and his family.
For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should have been awarded a knighthood, even possibly the Garter.
I would like to congratulate my partners in peace - Mr. Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Mr. Shimon Peres, the Israeli Foreign Minister - on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry.
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
I was totally into cartoon babes when I was a little dude. Cheetara from the 'Thundercats,' then Jessica Rabbit, and finally I moved onto a real-life human being and was into Punky Brewster, and then Christina Applegate on 'Married with Children.'
I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.
