Quotes About Author

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.

Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.

'Creative Commons' is the self-congratulatory name of a self-congratulatory movement. Somewhat like kibbutz on the Internet, the idea is to write programs - 'free ware' - and distribute them without charge.

Famously, I'm somewhat impatient.

I think what 'Saw' did was really open up a huge branch of lots of these other movies that ultimately retroactively gave the first 'Saw' somewhat of a negative reputation.

I'm super comfortable with TV, especially in my situation where I pretty much have 100% freedom. That's the ideal, and I've been fortunate in TV to have pretty much everything I've done be at least somewhat successful.

I am somewhat surprised to have employees.

Although I have made my career on dirty raps, I have worked over the years to somewhat balance the content of my music with giving back to the community.

My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France.

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.

There is an audition floating around somewhere that I did for 'Bates Motel.'

I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

You have to respect and understand the environment. So I don't think it's a case of taking anything from Ostersund and transferring it to somewhere else.

I hope that I'm doing my people justice and I hope that maybe someone from somewhere else can get a glimpse of the life of a Kentucky boy.

In 1988, Christmas, that was my last performance because I moved to Hawaii to raise my son.

The Orpheus myth is my favorite myth, and the prodigal son is my favorite parable.

In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.

Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

My son is very into music and really familiar with my voice.

'Sweeney Todd' is my favorite Sondheim musical.

I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me.

A song's lyrics can't be held culprit for the overall change in society.