A healthy economy is largely a result of a reasonable balance between consumption today and consumption deferred, and it’s pretty clear that balance has been ridiculously out of whack for a while.

Life is really pretty tricky, and there’s a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn’t live without.

I’m really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

I think it’s a great document of John Stevens’ originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and...

In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl on the runway whenever I was doing the catwalk. The clothes didn’t fit and the shoes didn’t...

England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in,...

The story was such that I couldn’t make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn’t want to. So, it isn’t the most graceful way of writing...

Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times… It goes to pretty dark places.

There have been times when people who weren’t my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won’t allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have...

I’ve heard that kind of weird backward compliment often – ‘She’s so talented, but not pretty.’

I was obsessed with the Spice Girls! I always wanted to be Sporty. Or Posh, but I wasn’t pretty enough.

I feel pretty comfortable in front of a camera.

All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they’re pretty good at that stuff. And I’m proud of them, but I don’t really keep up with it.

I was an estate agent for three years. That was pretty grim.

I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I’d be confronted by...

The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters.

My problem happens to be near-sightedness – inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.

I’m a pretty loyal person.

The sun kept dipping down into the ocean and the lights came on at the harbor, casting sudden shadows on the ground, illuminating the faces that were just a second ago silhouettes. The sky was...

I’m pretty boring really.

One of the reasons I don’t see eye to eye with Women’s Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don’t have to be pretty either.

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it’s pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There’s a lot going on there.

Since we can’t count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals...

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that’s why they make fun of things all of the time.

When you go in and guest-star on a TV show, they already have their family – everybody pretty much knows everybody, and everyone sort of has that base already formed.

I did some pretty crazy stuff that I never thought I would do, for the sake of a movie, like surfing in eight-foot waves in pitch-black darkness, where I can’t see anything. That still haunts...

They’re brainless girls, otherwise they wouldn’t be seen dead here. They’re pretty, with ugly, appealing smiles and conversations we can’t hear. They breathe smoke and blow it out, and words drop from their mouths and...

When you meet a head of state, and you say, ‘What is your most precious natural resource?’ they will not say children at first, and then when you say, ‘children,’ they will pretty quickly agree...

Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.

I just think that probably when somebody calls themselves ‘born again’ and kind of goes out there in a pretty radically zealous way, professes their glee about that, it can creep people out.

My heart is with the standards. That’s what I was raised on. I’m perfectly comfortable with pop. I feel lucky because I’m pretty versatile.

We have a pretty tough schedule coming up. We have to stay strong mentally and must focus on getting better.

When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I...

I’m pretty satisfied with how ‘Postcard’ turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

I’m not pretty. The truth is I didn’t think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself...

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

I don’t know what it is about me that gets cast in specific roles. Some people would say, ‘You’re just a pretty face,’ but on ‘Battlestar,’ I’m not looking pretty every day. I’m pretty banged...

We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got...

Honestly, I was a good kid but I figured out pretty early that I had a gift for making people laugh. I wanted to entertain and when that happens you tend to get yourself in...

We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books.

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

I’ve learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

I really like the iPad. I think that’s pretty cool.

I was pretty awkward when I was young, but I was never afraid of putting myself out there. I would say stupid things but then they would laugh at me and possibly find it endearing.

Detroit is a place where we’ve had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.

Sometimes I wonder if we ever truly let anyone completely in. The desire for another human being to know you, all of you, all the pieces, even the ones you’re ashamed of — is huge....

I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they instigated fears that weren’t there in the first place. I do...