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Without boxing, because of my neighborhoods, who knows what would have happened to me. It was always about following the leader. And I definitely was not a leader. Boxing gave me discipline; a sense of self. It made me more outspoken. It gave me more confidence.

There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.

For many young women, the dream of independence and a home of their own is a tantalising goal, while a lifetime devoted solely to catering for another person's needs would be hard to countenance.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

I am sure you would not understand if I told you my father is delightfully clear and selfish, tender and lying, formal and incurable. He exhausts all the loves given to him. If I did not leave his house at night to warm myself in Rango's burning hands I would die at my task, arid and barren, sapless, while my father monologues about his past, and I yawn yawn yawn...

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

There will be days when you feel defeated, exhausted, and plain old beat-up by life's whiplash. People you love will disappoint you - and you will disappoint them. You'll probably struggle with some kind of mortal appetite. Some days it will feel as though the veil between Heaven and Earth is made of reinforced concrete.

To be empathetic to everyone around you, I think, is such a powerful thing to hold.

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

Sometimes my body wakes me up and says 'Hey, you haven't had pain in a while. How about pain?' And sometimes I can't breathe, and that's hard to live with. But I still celebrate life and don't give up.

Pick your life and then fit your job in the cracks. Don’t pick your job and then fit your life in the cracks.

I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.

Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.

Growing up, all of my friends would set their schedules to the showing of kung fu movies on TV.

If you are not used to the g-forces, it can really mess with you. There's this overwhelming power that sweeps through the cabin. Your senses get pegged out. You're looking for comfort or safety but you won't find any. All you can do is keep breathing.

Little Haley Joel Osment in 'The Sixth Sense' can see dead people. Well, I can see racist people.

If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare.