When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance. I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone. Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. Everything I do is the environment. The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. So that's my philosophy: If you believe in yourself, the chances and the opportunities will come around. The idea of a language more simple than ours. We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from. No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted. All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business. Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things. Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users. Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work. Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world. I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important. Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago. The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more. At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you. The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it. Good design doesn't date. It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes. We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous. In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas. Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all. This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.