Pastoral Resources

If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

I'm every woman's dream and every man's nightmare.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

A woman should be an illusion.

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.

When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.

I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought.

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.

I don't know Bill Clinton as someone who needs to literally sexually harass a woman. I'm sure that he could have found many willing participants.

I'm a sexually liberated woman that earned that liberation. I am very proud of the fact that I feel comfortable in certain forums discussing sex.

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.

When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?'

It was the most romantic plane ever made.