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There are times when the actual experience of leaving something makes you wish desperately that you could stay, and then there are times when the leaving reminds you a hundred times over why exactly you had to leave in the first place.

I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.

We were living in California, and it just wasn't conducive for the lifestyle that we wanted with kids. Los Angeles is tricky to get around, there's paparazzi to deal with, and I had this feeling that I just wanted to move back to Australia.

Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit

We should naturally expect that the baptism of infants, if enjoined at all, would have been enjoined in the law which instituted the ordinance of Christian baptism. But this law is silent on the subject of infants.

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

I think models in general have a certain insecurity about themselves because they're known for being beautiful, so they have to prove to everybody they have personality and they are intelligent.

We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.

อุปสรรค์อีกอย่างของเด็กเอเชียเราคือ พฤติกรรมการรับส่งและประมวลข้อมูลที่แตกต่างจากฝรั่งค่อนข้างมาก การศึกษาเขาฝึกให้ตั้งคำถามตั้งแต่ยังเล็ก เขาโตมาด้วยการสื่อสารแบบสองทาง รับจากครู คิดในหัว และส่งกลับ ขณะที่เราคุ้นกับการ รับ-จำ-สอบ วงจรแบบนี้ทำให้การวิเคราะห์และสังเคราะห์ข้อมูลแบบเรียลไทม์ของเราไม่คล่องเท่าพวกนักเรียนอเมริกาเขา

I have this sense of independent heartbreak, of annulling romances before they get their feet off the ground.

Even though our time in this life is temporary, if we live well enough, our legacy will last forever.

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

I used to watch 'Charmed' and 'The Secret World of Alex Mack' - she was the best.

I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.

A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.

The ANC must ensure that South Africa does not become a mafia state because once you reach that state, all the wheels have come off.

I was in a production of 'Macbeth.'

I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.