Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.
The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple.
The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.
The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.
Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
I loved the Dixie Chicks. They were always so fun.
The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.
Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.
My family were liberal with a small 'l' but passionately doers. I wanted to be a doer.
If Alabama were 8-4, they'd still be dominating the conversation.
There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.
I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.
We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.
If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.
The motivations I had for being successful were somewhat dysfunctional.
If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.
I started watching Liverpool on the Kop; my earliest memories were 2000 onwards when Liverpool won the Treble under Gerard Houllier.