I always want to do - take everything and take it to the next step. I don't want to just keep doing something the same ol' thing. Obviously, I could have wrote 'Mother' 20 times and made tons of money and be playing gigantic arenas and whatever, but that's not really what I want to do.
Honestly, I'm just trying to do the best I can with every opportunity I'm given, and when I'm given the opportunities make the most of them.
Back when Donald Trump was just starting in the primaries, and I was asked, 'What do you think of Trump?' I would say, 'Donald Trump is a great example of someone in our country being able to truly do anything. You can dream, you can do it. And that's a great example of that. But when the primaries are over, Donald Trump will be gone.'
I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.
You can't take a story and just stretch it out - that does not a novel make.
I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.
A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.
But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.
I just think political correctness is crap.
I just love racing: I'll even race you to the door.
You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.
I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.
As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.
There are so many guys that come up and have strong hearts, but they just have to understand what the consequences are and how to execute the things that they learned to make themselves successful.
I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere.
House music is like going to church - it touches you. There's something really magical about it that pulls you in, and you just want to keep learning more about it.
I'm just taking it one day at a time. Actually, that's a total lie. I always think about what's in front of me.
Umpires are necessary evils. That's just the nature of the beast. For years, people have looked on umpiring as a job they could get any postman to do.
'Vanity Fair' caught me at a very exciting time in my life filled with night clubs, international fashion shows, celebrities and lots of cash to go around. Sometimes things just fall into place. 'Vanity Fair' was one of those things.
I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.
I'm able to utilize a lifetime of learning to help teach young people how to apply sound marketing strategy and principles for the purpose of growing the client's business. And for me, that's just too much fun.
I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.
I'll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful.
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining.
I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.
I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.
Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of 30 years is actually quite nebulous. It's impossible to encapsulate it. All you can do is go: 'what next?'
I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.
You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit.
I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.
Never say never. When love happens, it just happens. The industry is full of nice people, and there are no rights and wrongs.
People figure because I'm blonde and was a model, I just waltzed into Los Angeles and got major roles in major films.
We just want to have great people working for us.
