Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
I've been watching 'American Idol' since its debut season in 2002. Back then, America hadn't yet evolved into a gladiatorial cybernation of bloggers, tweeters, and self-ordained voice coaches.
I took lessons since I was little; I used to pay for my own singing lessons and take myself. Just take the bus when I was a kid and go. But I'd been writing music for years, since the smallest age.
There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.
Whether it was the Alaskan pipeline disaster or the Texas City refinery fire where 15 people died, time after time it's been shown that BP chooses expediency over safety.
Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.
I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.
I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
I went to school in New York and grew up in and out of New York. I love it, and I miss it, and every time I go back, I think, 'Why am I in Germany?' I do know that my career is really important to me, and in Germany, they've always been so much more supportive than my previous engagements in the dance world.
All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.
My kids are my No. 1 priority. They're the light in my everyday life. The sunshine. The miracle. Those eyes. Those smiles. At the same time, I have an extended, amazing family that is my audience. All these people have been with me for such a long time. I have these two responsibilities.
I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.
In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.
God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.
It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.
I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
From Julia Child to 'The Galloping Gourmet' and the Food Channel and Cooking Channel, our fascination with the spectacle of cooking has been a mainstay of TV entertainment.
But if too many countries, as has been the case, interfere too much in the internal affairs, the political situation of Afghanistan, then of course we can't hope satisfactory results.
I feel like I've been playing Spider-Man my whole life. He's a character I've been pretending to be in my bedroom since I was a kid - so I've been preparing for this forever, I think.
I have been measured on my merit and on my accomplishments.
I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!
What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means.
At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
I've been really lucky.
The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should... you were called un-American and not supporting the troops.
My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.
Everybody who has ever been snubbed, you know that is very humiliating.
Gay Africans must speak up and let everyone know they are there, they have always been there, and that they are not going away.
I had to find my own path, and in some ways, it's been a good thing.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.
We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.
