The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
If you become more of a witness to the way you're engaging in life, you can catch yourself really screwing up some days!
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.'
The most important part are the fans, that people going home are happy. It's their time off, and you should give them something to enjoy.
You've never seen anything until you've seen David Mamet be an Edwardian lady. He always conveys what he means, but he's so... masculine.
You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.
If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.
Kids today know way more than you think they do, with the Internet and 500 TV channels.
Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected.
Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.
You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.
You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.
What I can offer the game is creating a sound that, when you hear it, you know it's mine.
The purpose of fear, clearly, is to help you get away - which it does. If your heart rate increases, there is more blood pumping so you can use that blood to fuel your muscles to run away. Oxygen is sent to the lungs so you can run fast. Pupils dilating help you see in the dark. All of that prepares your body to fight or escape.
I'll always be chasing you... Glory.
Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.
I'm a big fan of unflinching drama and bold drama. If you shy away from dark subject matters, there's only certain places for TV drama to go. If there are shows that can break through that and be brave, those are the shows that I personally enjoy watching. I try and do work that I would watch.
You put these politicians in office, but then you've got to tell them what you want them to do. And it's intimidating to most people. I was intimidated by it. I mean, calling my senator or writing my senator? I'm like, what do I say? What do I do? But we're showing people that the political process is actually less intimidating than we think.
You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.
I think the only way you can become a writer is through honing your voice, creating your own voice.
I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.
A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.
When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.
I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'
I didn't think you could just become a rock and roll singer.
The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.
If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.
Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming.
You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
I'm a true centrist: my beliefs put me in the middle... You know what happens to people who drive in the middle of the road? They get run over.
You think about D.C. as a boring stuffy place. That's kind of its image. But if you grow up in that, you see all these energetic, fun people and crazy stuff that happens behind the scenes that no one knows about.
I suppose you could say there is an in-built stubbornness to me.
As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl.
Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. Enjoy not having to look at a watch.
The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?
