My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.
I love taking on other people's words. They are much more interesting to me than my own.
Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.
As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.
Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.
It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.
Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just want to say that I love him so much.
The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse.
I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.
I didn't have a whole lot of role models to say, 'This much is possible, versus this much.' So I finally said, 'I think I'd like to be a mayor. I'd like to pull together a city and help do good things.'
A cop by themselves on every corner is not going to make that much difference.
There is much more good gained from having a fully functioning financial market than there ever is not having that.
'Balthazar' is very much about the title hero having to choose between his past and his future. For the first time in a long time, he has a chance to be happy - with Skye. But he has this terrible tendency to set himself up for heartbreak, in part because he punishes himself for his past.
When I was younger, I suppose I was interested in checking out as much about writing as I could: bad, weird, irritating, even things not-to-my-taste. Now I am less open. I will decide after a few pages if I want to stay in the world of the book, and if I don't, I put it down. I have less time left.
As much as I like to explore the world, I explore music - from classical to rock.
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should.
I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.
The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.
Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun.
I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.
I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.
Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.
I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible.
Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him.
I had not seen that until - and when it first came out I was told. I had not seen or been aware of all of that physical evidence. And when I saw it, I was horrified. It was so astounding to me to see that there was that much evidence.
It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
I don't hate them any more like I used to. I just don't like them very much.
You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.
I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.
I've done an awful lot of skiing all over Europe: I've done Italy, Austria, France. I skied loads in New Zealand - I did pretty much every ski slope I could find.
Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one triplet for each amino acid.
