It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.
There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.
Running was a part of my hardwiring, and that's what I wanted to do. So this is what I tell people who talk about wanting to follow their passion. 'It doesn't have to be running. It can be basket weaving. Be the best basket weaver in the world. Throw your heart and soul into it.'
I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.
That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
I think most of us who live into our 50s have had a few experiences with death. You know, we see people we know start to die. We realize it's getting closer and closer for us.
I am against changing my body to become better. I am not against implants, I have a lot of girlfriends who have them, but the implants look good on them. I am never gonna get them, once I have kids they are gonna get bigger anyway.
'MacGyver' of course, that's probably my favorite show of all time because it was a guy who was so, so smart and could use his wits, and his technical know-how could get him out of any situation.
I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.
I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.
Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend.
When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
The 'Damsels' crew was low-budget, young people who were doing their first thing almost. A lot of it. It felt like Pied Piper or Rumpelstiltskin or whatever: it was me and people thirty years younger or more. But it was great; it was really fun.
The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago.
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I'm independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I'm positive, I'm disciplined, I like my life in order, and I'm neat as a pin.
What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.
As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.
I am fully a feminist in this modern definition of the term. It's innate in my work because that's just who I am.
My characters who come back from death are worse for wear. In some ways, they're not even the same characters anymore. The body may be moving, but some aspect of the spirit is changed or transformed, and they've lost something.
What helps writers, and ultimately, obviously, helps the actors - who should serve the words that the writer puts on the page - is if the character has damages, because then the writers can cultivate and excavate, like a dentist going into a tooth.
Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.
I'm not the only one who has ever lost somebody; I'm not the only one who was missing somebody. That's what I love about country music, that's what I love about songwriters, is being able to put out those words, those feelings.
People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.
I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
Today I have 35 people who work in the club and associated businesses.
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
My work at NASA has always been about team efforts, and so it's intrinsically about mentoring. I have been blessed with some brilliant colleagues who were able to take on huge challenges without a lot of guidance.
Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow.
The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.
