Quotes About Author

I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.

I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.

I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.

Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.

Years ago when I was at Fox, I was the executive on 'Raising Arizona.'

We don't see a choice between securing growth and investment and raising human rights issues.

I think 'Rake' was a very clever crossover, actually, because it does lend itself to the city of L.A.

In the year 1943 my grandfather, Shri Vijay Bhatt made a film by the name of 'Ram Rajya.'

Like 'Ram Jaane,' 'Mon Churi' also looks at the darker side of life and encapsulates the story of human beings who live on the fringes of society. But the plots are different.

'Laila' is very interesting and like Ram Gopal Varma's 'Darna Mana Hai,' it is episodic in nature.

As a former federal judge, I am cognizant of the legal issues. As governor, I am forced to deal with their ramifications.

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money.

I was very political when JFK ran.

'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.

I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

I do not know what kind of relationship Jim Carroll and The Ramones had, though I imagine they all knew each other, as they ran in the same scene.

In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

In the press, it has been said that I ran a foreclosure machine.

I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.

My best friends are women in the Senate, but much like Senator Obama, I ran on a platform of change.