I feel like I'm in a privileged position where I get to meet people and talk to them about the most important things in their lives. I appreciate that trust they're putting in me.
Most of my acting jobs have resulted in a series of mortifying revelations spread over years and years following the shoot.
I think most people have a general idea of the Constitution, and somewhat of the Bill of Rights.
Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
Well, one of the things a lot of Americans don't know, when Mitt Romney is nominated a few days from now, he will be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, who had run a university and had run the allied war effort. That's actually a big deal.
My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading.
I have noticed that most of the successful businessmen are not that educated. But they are the ones who hire highly educated employees to work for them.
Most people don't even know what a trombone is. It's not that popular as a front instrument... I picked it up and fell in love with it as a kid. It's a difficult instrument, but I like doing things that seem impossible.
Most people just half-watch TV. They watch TV while they are doing many other things in the environment of their home. So, what they are doing goes through their ears as much as through their eyes. In television, the narrative and characters are in the foreground of everything, because you are watching TV as you do other stuff.
Most people who've had a big hit movie like 'Paranormal Activity,' the next thing they say is, 'I want to make a $100 million movie.' I have no interest in making more expensive movies.
I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.
Many online journals get the most hits of the day during the lunch hour.
I would never know how good I was if I didn't have Bob Arum. Bob Arum is white, Jewish; He was working for prosecutor's office. I'm black, an ex-convict, ex-number runner. Who would be most likely to succeed? It would be Bob 100-1. Yet I beat Bob on everything we ever done, with love.
As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.
My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about this.' But love and heartbreak are some of the most abstract subjects.
To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.
Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
It's tough to perform every week and do it well. Most people don't know how hard that is.
Freedom means everything to me. It is the most essential right that every person deserves. Most people take it for granted, but not North Koreans.
If you're going to spend most of your time in your democracy figuring out how to get oil by intervening into other people's countries and insuring that you follow it with military might, we think there's an alternative. Which would be renewable energy.
The past 6 and a half years have been the most amazing years of my life. It's sad it has come to an end but Avril and I are still family and moving forward in the most positive way possible.
The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.
Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.
Most people have to learn the words to the National Anthem before they sing it. I learned these words when I was a child in elementary school, so this is something that's been embedded in me ever since I was an adult.
I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and spiritual woman.
Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.
If the Pacific took Nauru, it'd wash away one of the strangest and most troubled places on Earth.
It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.
I think most of the time you can make something happen, and it's about not letting your imagination be limited by that.
I don't think I can play a role without falling in love with something about her; even the most despicable people who I have portrayed had some aspect of them which I found beautiful.
If you're a big Hollywood star, you make one movie a year at the most. I can make five in Europe.
Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.
