I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.
Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa.
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.
Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.
While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.
I've had great success being a total idiot.
Apart from being Jennifer Lewis. The name pulls people in.
Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.
That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.
I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that... I was worthy of being number one to a man.