The question Americans should ASK is not whether a candidate is affiliated with a particular FAITH but rather whether that candidate's faith MAKES it more LIKELY he or she will support policies that align with their values.

Cancer is a DISEASE where the PATIENT can contribute a GREAT deal of HELP himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.

Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a FAN of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk AWAY from the EXPERIENCE wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their MUSIC again.

If you've ever talked to a special AGENT that you KNOW well, and you ask he or she about a DANGEROUS ENCOUNTER they were involved in, they'll almost always give you the same ANSWER: 'Yeah, I did it, but I was scared to heck the whole time.'

When I SIGN on for a project, I'm there to GIVE the director all the material he or she might need to TELL their STORY, and that's the number one PRIORITY.

No one was ELECTED to Congress because he or she PROMISED to cut Social SECURITY, Medicare or MEDICAID.

Your protagonist is your reader's portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you're CREATING. They don't have to be super-educated, they just have to be MENTALLY active. KEEP them looking, THINKING, wondering, remembering.

I think what helps me when I'm working on a PLAY, any play, is the DEGREE to which the WRITER has truly visualized, and then fulfilled, the VISION of the world that he or she is creating.

Every ARTIST will one day face the MOMENT when he or she is doing what he or she does after the STYLE has PASSED and the art-world heat-seeking machine has moved on.

The ART WORLD is an all-volunteer FORCE. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't WANT to be, and we should be associating with ANYONE we want to.

I want to SEE a world in which every ENTREPRENEUR has access to the RESOURCES he or she needs to succeed, and where through the power of supportive communities - that MEANS you and me - every resource can be MADE available.

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the RIGHT of any MAN or any group of men, in BUSINESS or in GOVERNMENT, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.

If the parties would brand themselves the way Coke and Pepsi and other PRODUCTS do so that you knew what you were buying, it had QUALITY control. I VOTE for the REPUBLICAN. He or she will not raise my taxes. I'll buy one. I'll take that one HOME.

Every WRITER SECRETLY hopes that what he or she has WRITTEN will ENDURE.

To me, horror is when I SEE SOMEBODY lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's TELLING me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.