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If you think the shifting tectonics of world history might make for a juicy crime fiction backdrop, the last decade or so has proved you right.

I want to represent my country to the best of my abilities. I want to make Reese Witherspoon proud.

I don't have a desire to do reality. Because my truth is not what people are responding to. My truth is funny; I laugh with my husband every day.

I do get recognised, but not as much as someone like Dev Patel or Nicole Kidman.

There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.

I operated a business where I let someone steal three-quarters of a million dollars.

Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul.

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teaching man the way of life and peace, The Way to God.

I love doing girly stuff with my mum or with Sophia. I took Sophia and a couple of her friends to the Hello Kitty spa. They had chocolate facials and Hello Kitty mani-pedis. I put it on my Twitter and got lots of abuse for it, but I think it's just a nice girly thing.

Do not be the cause of cutting the sustenance of other people, a day comes people will be the reason to cut off your livelihood.

I may never get back to the track. The problem was that I was dominating my event, and the winning became slightly boring. I wanted new challenges, and I've got that on the road.

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

Yes, Obama took over two wars from Bush - just as President Richard Nixon inherited Vietnam from President Lyndon Johnson and President Dwight Eisenhower inherited Korea from President Harry Truman. But at least the war in Iraq was all but won by 2009, thanks largely to the very surge Obama had opposed as a senator.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.