You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.

"Married with Children" was racy, it was sexist, it was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

I was very rebellious.

I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

The reason people are watching women in their mid-fifties is because a lot of those women feel great and have different, interesting stories to tell.

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

You best teach others about healthy boundaries by enforcing yours.

I'm not that conscious of my writing, so pacing the lyrics doesn't really enter the picture.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

I wear perfume even when I’m alone

Culture is not usually one of the criterion for personhood, but it has been argued that culture is sort of a medium for a lot of these criteria, such as empathy, and so on.

Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood until they were interpreted after the event and by it.'

We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.