Pastoral Resources

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen.

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.