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I seek out things that terrify me, like an improv class. I'm terrified of sharks, but I scuba dive. I'm not good at auditioning, but I force myself to do it all the time. I've never met anybody who is fearless, but the more you push against your own boundaries, the easier it becomes to push.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.

When you're younger, being a redhead is... Well, my two brothers teased me no end.

My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself outside of it. My mother, on the other hand, not only accepted that she would always be an outsider in this country but also believed it to be a finer fate and home than any other she could have had.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

You must buy health insurance or pay the new Gestapo - the IRS.

There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'

Don't put your love life on Instagram! It's nice to celebrate how you feel at a particular time, but don't get carried away.

Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life, but on a deeper level stories help us explore issues that are otherwise difficult to address. On one hand a good book helps us escape our troubles, and on the other hand it can help us face up to those troubles by bringing real issues to the fore, often in a more manageable way, since the problems are experienced vicariously through the eyes of another.

The success of 'Bodyguard' is a tribute to the magnetism of our two leads, Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes.

In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

Checking your telomere length is a bit like weighing yourself: you get this single number which depends on a lot of factors. Telomere length gives a sense of your underlying health.