I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.
Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.
If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.
Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.
A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.
The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.
There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see.
We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.
Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.
There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.
Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.
Male bashing is everywhere. It would be a mistake to view the current situation as another skirmish in the war between the sexes. Women have been doing the shooting, and men have been burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets will miss.
The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.
The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.
Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.
I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.
Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?
I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.
From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.
Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.
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