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A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.

People ask me about 'The Hurt Locker' a lot, and it's an incredible piece of filmmaking - as are 'Band of Brothers' and 'Platoon' and 'Full Metal Jacket' and 'Apocalypse Now.' But they're not necessarily true to war in a literal sense. What they are, really, are brilliant movies about Hollywood's idea of war.

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.

Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.

Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.

Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.

I remember 'Rain Man' with Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman with all the Lamborghinis being lifted off the tanker. I was obsessed with this car. Absolutely obsessed with this car. It was my dream, and to finally drive one and own one was incredible.

I was raised by my aunt and we bonded over the eight-o-clock movie on TV. We'd watch everything from James Cagney in 'White Heat' to Lon Chaney in 'The Wolf Man' and every Bogart movie.

A job should only be a stepping stone to being your own boss

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.