I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.
The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.
So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.
Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better.
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.
The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.
Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.
Whatever it is that I thirst for in my current project tends to turn up in my following project.
My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page that's really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm.
When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse.
Fun without sell gets nowhere but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat.
If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope.
The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.
The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.
Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
Anytime I listen to my gut and I don't do something, or I do, it always tends to work out in my favor.
When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.
In the States, there's ESPN3, and each country has different options, and other than premiere league football, there tends to be very little global content. And movie and TV rights are pretty broad content.
The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies.
American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mothers. We ricochet between 'Everything I ever accomplished I owe to my mother' and 'Every problem I have in my life is my mother's fault.'
As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
I'm a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in the juxtaposition of extreme lightness - I'm a huge musical-theater fan - and extreme darkness. And so I really like playing with those because that's how I feel.
Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.