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My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

For Mitt Romney, the complex question of anti-Mormon bias boils down to the practical matter of how he can make it go away. Facing a traditional American anti-Catholicism, John F. Kennedy gave a speech during the 1960 presidential campaign declaring his private religion irrelevant to his qualifications for public office.

I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.

Sometimes the nature of a big movie, the nature of the material, the scene doesn't have the richness that you'd want it to.

People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters.

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

The Gift Be still, my soul, and steadfast. Earth and heaven both are still watching though time is draining from the clock and your walk, that was confident and quick, has become slow. So, be slow if you must, but let the heart still play its true part. love still as once you loved, deeply and without patience. Let God and the world know you are grateful. That the gift has been given.

Awakening is the only chance for Mankind. Otherwise destroy Ego Earth and Human Race Nara

The best meal I've had was in Tavarua, an island in Fiji. It was just before sunset. A bunch of guys had just caught all this yellow fin tuna; they literally brought this huge wooden table down to the sand, pulled the tuna from the boat, dropped it on top of the table, pulled the skin off and sliced the tuna up.

Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.

Directing is a very, very difficult job.

Am I a household name? I still can't get my head around that.

I am multiracial, and I went through different phases - at one point, I listened to Wu-Tang and hip-hop, and then the next year I listened to Joni Mitchell.

Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him.

Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.