“I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive.” PeopleInspiredObsessiveNicole Author:Nicole Kidman
“I'm afraid of the general things that everyone is afraid of: a bump in the night that could be a cat or Death dragging his sickle across the room; losing my health; becoming homeless, never meeting George Clooney.” NightLosingCatMeetingsHomeless Author:Karin Slaughter
“Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going.” SuccessfulRejectionCrush Author:Karin Slaughter
“Don't try to follow in my footsteps. Make your own footsteps! No one else can tell the stories that are inside of you except for you.” TryingFootsteps Author:Karin Slaughter
“My direction as a person working in film has been to never get comfortable with anything I was doing. At the time that I decided to do action films, people were telling me, "Well, you can't do it. You're not that type. It's not going to work." And so obviously that made me think, "Well, that's not comfortable. Maybe I should try it. What can I do with it?" So I did that, and I'm glad I did it. I'll probably do it again, and I did other kinds of things that seemed like challenges for me, because I like being on the high wire.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindActionFilmChallengesGladGoing To WorkWire Author:Nicolas Cage
“I like being at that place where you can either fall or stand. That's where I think you really have a shot at doing something truthful.” ThinkingFallTruthful Author:Nicolas Cage
“I don't know why it is, but I do like dancing in the extreme situations. I like that noise, I like that intensity. For some reason, it's what I respond to in terms of my taste and of my instincts.” ReasonTermSituationDancingInstinct Author:Nicolas Cage
“I certainly would never overstep my bounds and make suggestions to a director. As an actor I'm trying to fit to the best of my abilities within the director's vision, and trying to find some happy rapport where we can both bring something to it that's fresh. Usually I've been lucky in working with directors who have trusted my instincts.” TryingAbilityVisionFitLuckyInstinctTrustedRapport Author:Nicolas Cage
“I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.” BlackBlack History Author:Alice Walker
“Howard Zinn helped us desegregate Atlanta. That was moving because he took a lot of abuse for that. He and Staughton Lynd, a fellow professor who was also from the North, stood with us. They were certainly behind us. In fact, they often stood in front of us. This had a huge impact on me. But one of the reasons I was very careful about speaking about the relationship I had with him and Staughton was because, in a racist society, if you acknowledge a deep love for and a deep debt owed to white teachers, they tend to discredit your own parents and your own community.” ReasonMovingParentCommunityTeacherAbuseCarefulAcknowledgeRacistDeep LoveDiscredit Author:Alice Walker