The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.
I'm feeling pretty good right now, but I hope we can just win the whole thing and I can run off into the sunset and say good-bye.
A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have.
The most flattering thing I hear is, 'I didn't think I liked country music before I heard your record.'
I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.
It felt like a very, very weird thing to go on the set on September 13th. I would never want to glorify that.
My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.
Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.
Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
I don't think I would do a straight late-night talk show, like a 'Tonight Show' kind of thing. But I'm open to whatever is done well. I don't have any agenda. I'm not like Fugazi - I'm not trying to be just so punk rock until I die. Whatever is funny is good.
Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it starts eating away at you, and they're waiting for more from me, or what can I do to top this, then you're in trouble. Just do what you love. That's all I want to do.
I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.
Losing my sister to cancer was... That was the worst thing in the world, man.
Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.
The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.
Because of people like that guy in San Francisco who told me it changed his life, 'Teen Witch' is my most favorite thing I've ever done. I see how happy it makes people, and that makes me happy. The great thing is that no one realized it was going to become all these things when we were making it. We thought we were making a very serious movie.
To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.
Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.
I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
One thing that golf teaches you is humility.
Developer mindshare is the most important thing to have in digital currency.
The most important thing is to illicit some reaction, good or bad. If some people are repellent to me, so be it. If some people are attracted to me, great. At the end, that's the object of entertainment - you want to provoke a reaction.
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
The thing that weighs the most on how your final artwork turns out is the amount of time you have and the speed at which you can move.
People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
It's pretty simple to me: we come from a really grounded world where anything you say could be the thing that the scene becomes about. We're always treating it as if we would treat it in real life. It's all observation.
This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.
One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.
It was a fine cast and lots of fun to make, but they did the damn thing on the cheap. The backdrops had holes in them, and it was shot on the worst film stock.
That's always a funny thing, when people think they're known for every little thing they ever did, and they're really not.
I don't think I'm a star or a celebrity or any thing like that.
My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
