My biggest growth has been sitting with things that are uncomfortable and dealing with them.

The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.

This is my one and only life and it's a great and terrible and short and endless thing and none of us come out of it alive.

I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.

I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.

I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.

You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.

There's no negatives. You just have to trust that what's happening in your life is unfolding in exactly the right way.

I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen.

My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in one of its numerous manifestations.

Ignorance of mortality is a comfort.

I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.

States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's excessive - usually, the resistance.

The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!

There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.

I don't care about three years ago - I don't care about two years ago. I don't care about last year. The only thing I care about is this week.

Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on.

A reporter is no better than his source of information.