Sometimes you have to subordinate strategic considerations to tactical needs.
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
Even when you're not acting, don't lose sight of your goals or who you are.
Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.
The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.
No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.
The golden rule for playing the bass is that's it all about feel, not just plonking away. You need to feel the sound, not using a pick or a plectrum - which has meant plenty of calluses on my fingers.
The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating.
Vampires are immortal, you can do whatever you want, and get away with it. And there's the seduction part of course, sex is a big part of the vampire thing.
I just told you I wasn't a Satanist.
If bad things happen to you as a kid, it's hard for you to succeed as an adult.
Makeup is something that a female has to reckon with every single day. Whether you wear it or don't, you're always making decisions about wearing it or not, or how you're wearing it, and what that means.
Real friends stab you in the front.
I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.
You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me.
As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.
I've been buying guitars since 1964, and you fool yourself into thinking it's the last one.
Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.
You can do anything you want to do.
At the end of the day, no one asks a woman, 'Do you need a neck rub? Do you need a drink, honey?'
You can't look at the problem and say, 'I want them to do more, better, faster miracles - and not invest in research, not invest in development, and have those miracles delivered to me free.' It's unrealistic.
I think what we all have to do is make this big leap towards renewables. And it has to be a solution where you're actually building the answer; and it has to be built faster than the natural gas industry can build their answer.
So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.
It's impossible to accept love from anyone else if you don't love yourself. It's a big issue, particularly for us plus-size ladies and for anyone dealing with weight, because we're not taught to love ourselves or be our own cheerleaders.
A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it's not so good.
I haven't found the experience of being hot very great. It usually means you are about to be overexposed. I would rather be respected.
Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.
I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.
When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.
Real music to me is real; it's what you feel.
I'm glad to see the casual game play coming back now on the Internet, games that aren't violent, that aren't complex that you can sit down and you can have some fun.
The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.
Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.
