Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.
I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.
I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's.
Socialism? We've had way too much of it already.
If I'm going to be honest with you, when I trained at school, I feel like I was training to be a chameleon. I want to be that versatile actor who can do anything - that's why you learn fifty different dialects, you do Shakespeare, you do commedia, you do it all so that if any job comes your way, you should be able to do it.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
My poems are always about my life in one way or another.
The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.
I never, in anything I've ever done, tried to get you to like it. I was never going to succeed at that. That's not the way most entertainment is made. Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.
I'm excited to see what comes my way, see what I'm interested in next, and just see what happens.
I honor God that much in the way I play. That's why I never believe in getting tired. I don't even know what that word means.
I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.
Getting rich is about fun. It's a game, and you have to treat it that way.
It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.
Kip Keino, Moses Tanui, Paul Tergat, they all come from my tribe. Some say it is the food we eat that makes us strong, the way we live. In the history of our people we wear no clothes and we are used to drinking the blood of animals.
Bruce Lee was just so lightning-fast. People try to emulate him in whatever way they can, but to try and do what he was doing... you're just inspired by it; you're not trying to say, 'Look, I can do that.' No one can do what he did.
We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.
I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music.
A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.
I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.
I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.
Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.
I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe.
If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.
There's no way you can imagine going from kids in high school to being the best band in the world.
Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?
I think fame is such a scary thing, and it's something I can never understand. It's terrifying, but it's the only way I get to do what I love every day, you know?
I think I'm in the best place I've ever been in so many ways. I've just come out of five years of very difficult times for numerous reasons and yet at the same time it's lead to such growth. It's very exciting that way.
On two occasions, utility executives I'd never met had looked at me and said, 'I thought you'd be bigger!' In a way, I took that as a compliment!
Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
