Pastoral Resources

To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.

I would have to say News Radio is the highlight of my career. I love the character so much.

It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim.

We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

I've never played a character where I've had so much fun on the physical end. I don't want to say I like it too much but it's fun having a gun on you and getting to manhandle men.

I would assume most people hate my character. But I'm hoping that I'm the character you love to hate.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

I love being able to wear dresses and clothes that make me feel feminine and beautiful, and I love the fact that I don't have to all the time; I can wear a tank and jeans.

I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.

I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.