My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.

I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.

What a precious privilege to pray?

Intentions are nothing

In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

My god is narrative filmmaking.

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

Trust in your own self more than in all else.

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

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