Of course everyone dreams of living in the 17th or the 18th century because of the costumes, but there were so many incommodities.
I have a background in counseling because I've been to a lot of therapy.
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.
Different parts of Ireland have different alliances, because you have little pockets where counties are good at hurling, and different counties are good at football.
The hard-working Mexican tries to get up here looking for opportunities because America's one of the greatest countries in the world.
For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular uprising, not a euphemism for a coup.
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
I don't like courting controversy because I don't like people not liking me.
I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast.
I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.
I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.
I started doing drag because I needed a creative outlet for myself.
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.
I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere.
I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
I do not take to the field to defend myself from certain criticisms. If I do, in this kind of career, it is because I'm very self-critical.
During the Jim Crow era, poll taxes and literacy tests kept the African-Americans from polls. But today, felon disenfranchisement laws accomplished what poll taxes and literacy tests ultimately could not, because those laws were struck down. But felony disenfranchisement laws had been allowed to stand.
