My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

Don't Stress About the Future. Live Life and Love Now!

Thousands of miles from Georgia, beginning that night in England, my dad became a foreign-language speaker to me – and I was utterly charmed by it. I found the foreigner in myself.

Until you eliminate your own fears, you will never know your capabilities.

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song: My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.

Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.

I think ultimately that sense of hope is something that even as a little kid I was able to kind of grab onto.

The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.

Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.