I believe there are many soul mates, because my soul has a lot of different facets and it needs a lot of different.

I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.

I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.

I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one.

I'm living my life as a journey. My quest is to make it better every year.

Beauty [is] a kind of radiance. People who possess a true inner beauty, their eyes are a little brighter, their skin a little more dewy. They vibrate at a different frequency.

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

When I go out, I love steak and caviar.

I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.

I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.

Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I goTo heal my heart and drown my woeRain may fall, and wind may blowAnd many miles be still to goBut under a tall tree will I lieAnd let the clouds go sailing by

Well, most textbooks say language is a mechanism for expressing thought. But language is thought. Thought is information given form. The form is language.

She'd grown up believing in hell in an abstract nightmare way

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

I also think there is a wisdom and strength in that generation [of our parents], in terms of getting through difficult times, and there is a stoicism in the face of challenges that I greatly admire.

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Wow. I'm humbled and I'm honored. To be in the International Boxing Hall of Fame with so many of my friends and heroes is overwhelming.

With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.

No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.

Spielberg was very young and starting up when we did Sugarland Express and I loved that, but the main thing was that I really loved his talent.