The FLY that doesn't WANT to be swatted is most SECURE when it LIGHTS on the fly-swatter.

If you take the '70s with Blaxploitation pictures, there was a proliferation of black-content films and MOTION pictures, television, STAGE plays and so forth at a time when HOLLYWOOD was in TROUBLE financially, and it was cheaper to do black films to keep the lights on until they could reestablish themselves.

They used to CALL me Firefly when I was a little girl, and I always tried to figure out why I was being called a firefly. I was really black, black, black from the sun. After being in JAMAICA for 13 years, my eyes were really beady and white, and my skin was really black. I must have really looked like a fly. My eyes looked like lights, like STARS.

In the hierarchy of public lands, NATIONAL parks by law have been above the rest: America's most special places, where natural beauty and all its attendant pleasures - QUIET waters, the scents of fir and balsam, the hoot of an OWL, and the dark of a NIGHT sky unsullied by city lights - are sacrosanct.

Watching baseball under the lights is LIKE observing dogs INDOORS, at a pedigree SHOW. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to SUIT the species.

Within my own LIFE, I read all the beloved novels by LAMPS of vegetable oil; I SAW the STANDARD Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

We used Chaplin's FORMULA in all my PICTURES. Make 'em LAUGH for five and a half reels, and then make 'em cry in the last half reel. But give 'em a chance to DRY their eyes before the lights COME up.

Despotism can only exist in DARKNESS, and there are too many LIGHTS now in the political firmament to permit it to remain ANYWHERE, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

What's great is that I keep hearing from PEOPLE who are discovering 'Friday Night LIGHTS' because of streaming and Netflix and Hulu and all of these things. Somehow... things don't GET old as fast as they USED to. They stay vibrant.

July is high burglary season because so MANY PEOPLE leave town. To help avoid MAKING that obvious, suspend your newspaper subscription and have your mail held. Another CLEAR indication is if all your lights are off for an extended PERIOD. To fix that, you can buy a timer for about $30.

With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to MAKE it our own and improvise as MUCH as we WANTED.

As a dad, you are the Vice President of the EXECUTIVE branch of parenting. It doesn't MATTER what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's BILL Clinton. She FEELS the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to TURN off the lights.

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a WOMAN taken in ADULTERY as she LOOKS out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a FOUL ball. This is ceremony.

I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a MUSICIAN, EXCEPT it takes a little more EFFORT to get to that PLACE as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and EVERYTHING. But I love jamming with these people.

I came from the COUNTRY, and when I came to the city, I was ridin' high, you know. I was seeing more lights than I EVER dreamed to SHINE in the world. 'Cos where I came from, there wasn't too MANY lights. Bugs made a lot of light, but after that there wasn't no lights.