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There are a lot of writers who find a groove and spend a career mining that vein. I seem to be exactly the opposite.

I'm a natural blonde. I was a towhead as a kid, and then it got ashier when I was 18.

'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.

I want my readers to be disturbed. I want them to ask, 'Could this really happen?' It is my job to think up new possibilities, to stimulate thought.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

The Venezuelan people will never abandon the ideals President Chavez gave us. Modestly, we contribute to ensure the stability of the region.

I was afraid people wouldn't take me seriously, or would stop respecting me, if I talked about how bad I was feeling. The only people I talked openly about it with was my business partner, Dave Jilk, and my girlfriend - now wife - Amy Batchelor. They were amazingly supportive, but even then, I was deeply ashamed about my weaknesses.

Stan Hansen was a tough-as-nails freshman middle linebacker when I was a senior at West Texas State. He was a damn good football player, but he developed some problems with his knees. When football didn't work out he asked me about professional wrestling.

Whenever he was bored or anxious, his brain distracted itself by worrying at the question of whether he could ever make Anna like him, like a dog working the last bits of marrow from a bone.

Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.

I learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger, too, that it's O.K. to be pluggish.

I don't think anyone went the polls and said, 'I am casting my vote to make sure that Wall Street has better chances to make bigger profits off the backs of the American people.'

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

I tend to like the most basic pieces with the perfect fit and fabric, like a simple tank.