By the time I was successful with covers of 'Vogue' and 'Harper's Bazaar' and 'Vanity Fair' and the Lancome contract, someone asked how old I was. They almost fainted when I said 33.
Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn't let them get away with it. I'd take them on. I now perceive my job to include allowing people to vent their rage.
Very often, when you get into a conversation that's more of a debate, you'll pick up that the other person is venting at you. And when someone vents at you, it triggers a reaction. You get defensive and vent back.
I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues.
It's fun when you've opened for someone at a venue, and then years go by, and now you're headlining.
Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?
When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the claim are true.
Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa.
I have seen women literally run into the abortion facility because someone was yelling Bible verses at them or pushing a graphic image in their faces.
My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time.
I love the notification system on Google+. If someone mentions you, you get notified via Gmail. That's very useful for someone like me.
The word 'entertain' means to hold someone's attention, and what we want is a faith that is vibrant and alive and beautiful and real.
Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.
It is almost always the case that when someone self-radicalizes, someone close to them sees the sign, which is why we continue to encourage public awareness, public vigilance.
It's very easy to vilify someone when they're objectified. The right wing did it to Nancy Pelosi for years and years and years.
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.
The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.
I love to sell, to visualize something for someone and make them see it.
Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else who contributed something that was original. Certainly in the way that I described visualizing numbers in abstract, meaningful shapes.
