It's not that I don't get on bandwagons; I just climb aboard only after most of the band has packed up and left for the next gig.
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
I missed a tuna-fish sandwich with mayo on toasted wheat bread more than anything. Six months after I went vegan, I snuck into a deli and took one home. And, of course, it wasn't nearly as good as I fantasized. It tasted, well, fishy.
I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It seems the Republican obsession with being pro-life lasts about nine months. After that, it's each baby for herself.
I think I've definitely found a niche working in comedy, but dramatic films are what brought me here. After I saw 'Titanic' in the theater, I got the bug.
The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
When we got knocked out against Porto in the Champions League, I only slept two hours that night. I was not a nice person to be with after that match. I was struggling to get the result out of my system.
It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.
Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?
I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.
After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.
We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign.
I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.
I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way.
I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'
Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.
After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.
I grew up with a father who taught me chess at the age of 6 or 7. He'd always beat me. Of course. I was a kid of 6 or 7. After he won, he'd look at me and say, 'It's good to be king.' And then he'd say, 'But you know what's even better? To rule the world.'
One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.
We'll look after our hospitals. We'll look after our schools. We'll look after our infrastructure.
I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'
Those who believe that after I have left the government as prime minister, I will go into a permanent retirement, really should have their heads examined.
The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.
In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.
Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.
After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too.
In my father's later years he asked several times that I remember him the way I knew him. He said that after his death, people would talk. They would say 'things' about him and he wouldn't be there to defend himself.
The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.
For many women, going back to work a few months after having a baby is overwhelming and unmanageable. As strange as it may seem, things get even more difficult for a working mom after the second and third baby arrive. By that time, the romance of being a modern 'superwoman' wears off and reality sets in.
I was always incredibly obsessed with germs and cleaning and taking shower after shower after shower. Even when I was very young, I wouldn't tie my shoelaces because they had touched the ground. I had continuous repetitive thoughts that I couldn't get past. As a child, my mind was a lot busier than I was.
