If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

The audience perceives only what the actor wants to do to the other actor.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.

We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.

I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.