Quotes About Author

Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.

All of business and all of politics is essentially fiction to those who live them. I have more experience with fiction than most senators because I do it all day, so their world didn't seem that foreign to me.

I've been a horror fan pretty much in the sense that my sense of horror and my sense of humor were both equally kindled by films as a kid.

We've always had a sense of humor - look at our name.

I have a country-boy sense of humor. I come from a poor family, and I have no education. But I am Middle America, and what makes me laugh is what makes them laugh.

I love London, and London loves me! I adore the dry sense of humor there, and the way they live like there is no tomorrow.

An opportunity to play for your country is never senseless and especially when the games are competitive.

'Mad About You' fit my sensibility the most of any show that I worked on, and as a result, it was really fun. It felt like a very natural fit.

I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.

I don't want to act in a preachy movie just because that is more sensible. I don't watch that kind of cinema.

I've been very sensible with the money I made, and I did make good money.

Maybe I'm too sensitive to the struggle, but I think a lot of people that listen to music are trying to escape.

I have to respect her family, and until they come and say, 'We're ready to do an Aaliyah album,' then I don't really want to come and try to get into that because that's very sensitive.

The fact is that Americans were sent to Russia that have not been returned.

Worth' was a script that was sent to me, and I felt it was something different and important to do.

They sent us the script of 'Back to the Future III' and we wrote 'Doubleback' for it.

I like to start every sentence with: 'So here's the deal.'

When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.

The thing that most interests me about writing - there are lots of things, but the thing I can't do without - is the hit of happiness a lovely sentence delivers.

I find that most novels are not good all the way through. A story can be good all the way through, every sentence.

I'm not a very sentimental person, so you're not going to find schmaltzy scenes in my movies.

I am very sentimental, very emotional, but never in my writing; I am very tough.

I think the economics of this country is intricately linked to the politics of this country and the two cannot be separated.

I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children.