No matter what you're going through as long as you have some specific emotion whether it's positive or negative it is all stuff that you can use on stage.

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff but the damage.

I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.

I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works great. If it doesn't no problem.

I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.

When people ask me about my story I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments the big landmark checkpoints.

If it's great stuff the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

When I first started working in politics as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious tough stuff.

Well I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love loss heartbreak - all of that good stuff!

One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on he decided to go into economics so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm well-being and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

Bad quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff because it really comes from the heart.

Poetry is at the centre of my life too emotionally speaking and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy for example or the little wheelie guy he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

I'm a parent especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich that's what you dip into.

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.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.