Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.
In 1980, in 1984, millions of middle-class Democrats became Reagan Democrats, and more of them drifted toward the Republicans with Bush in 1988.
All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.
No one is the same after I fought them - Hearns, Duran, Leonard. All of them.
I'm a huge fan of dystopian films. I collect them in my brain.
Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.
The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.
My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.
The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.
Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.
Miami has embraced me and I love them for that.
I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.
We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.
I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
I'd rather entertain people than offend them.
Listening to people keeps them entertained.
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.
