I am a firm believer that you can have the body you want, only to the extent that you're willing to work for it.
In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.
Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.
If you don't infuse humor into a subject matter, no matter how dark, the audience can't accept the message of a film. It closes them down. Humor can open them up.
Music is great; it all depends on what mood you're in, what you want to listen to. If it's party time, you listen to, you know, party music, if you want to dance with somebody. But then again, if it's a slow dance, you need something slow.
You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.
I think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map.
You're measured by championships no matter what.
If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.
You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.
I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.
Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
You can't raise kids alone, you can't heal alone... you really need a community.
Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.
Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?
When your name is out there like that, guys are going to want to see what you're about.
How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
We try to do too many things that used to be in the men's domain, and we try to do them like men's. I'm a prude - I guess you can tell that - but I think, 'Why would you do that?'
You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.
It's amazing the hours you pull when you're the lead of a show.
I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.
It's not easy to slather your face with oil. It requires a little bit of work to smooth it on and rub it in. You become more familiar with the feel of your own skin and face.
A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.
Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.
If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding?
Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.
Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.
Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!
I went to work. That was a turning point. When you have to do eight shows a week and your name is on the marquee, no matter what is going on at home or what's on the cover of the newspapers, you've got to do your job.
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.
