“I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Ame...” — Madeleine Albright Quote

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.

One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.

They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.

It's not just unexpected for other people. It's very unexpected for myself. But I think that's like a really good place to write from, when you're surprising yourself. Nobody was waiting for this. Nobody was like, 'What we want is a lumberjack novel.' In a lot of ways, that freed me to do whatever I wanted.

I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.

All of my experiences modeling, acting, doing theater, it's all in the work now. And the work freed me to transform myself.