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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the director, too; the amount of control for a playwright is almost infinite, so you have that control over the finished product.

I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.

When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.

The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.

Not everyone is born to run a $4 billion company. There is no magic formula. I've learned, and I've grown by learning. That's why I've enjoyed being in business so much: It's stretched me.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act in Indiana does not give anyone the right to deny services to anyone in this state. It is simply a balancing test used by our federal courts and jurisdictions across the country for more than two decades.

It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.

We did a lot of high school productions. My first was 'Twelfth Night.' I played Viola. We did 'Much Ado About Nothing' and 'Taming of the Shrew,' and a lot of musicals: 'The Wiz,' 'Bye Bye Birdie,' 'Oliver.'

No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

I wrote '33 Men' in eight weeks. Not only was it a combination of simultaneously writing and interviewing, but as I dug deeper into the miners' story, I found the key to their success was the ability to place their individuality on the back burner and bring forward the sense of a collective group responsibility.

I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.

Writing is not just a process of creation. It is also a process of self-discovery

Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'

The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.