I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.
I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now.
I could actually do a lot more if I didn't have things go wrong. So, what I am trying to do now is stay light on the parasites. If you are not drained by anyone you can do way more.
When things go right (and they go right a lot - you just got to keep trying) there is nothing to really laugh about.
Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.
I would suggest that gluten tends to be tied to carbs. And I try to balance my carbs and my proteins and my fats.
You know, I did records by myself and I always will say the Isley Brothers, and featuring Ronald. I won't, you know, just, I won't try to deviate from the Isley Brothers, because that's what the family dream was all about.
The difficult notes are when they say, "And this is how we want you to fix it . . ." Just tell me what the problem is. Just tell me what the issue is, and I'll go off an fix it. It's usually when executives get to a place where they're trying to fix the problem for you that you have issues
In my Comedy Club sets, I just work on what is fresh and try to build that show as long as I can. I don't like to do burnt material on stage. Even though my crowd loves to hear me do old stuff, I don't like to do old stuff.
To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.
You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.
On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this stage I'm often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I'm back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way.
I'm just trying to make up for lost times, and I have total awareness that when the work is coming it doesn't mean it's going to continue to come, so I'm taking advantage of this phenomenal period that I'm in now, to its fullest.
It's not like I'm just trying to win and get elected. I'm trying to change the course of history.
I have this terrible habit of wanting to try to be consistent and develop a philosophy that's coherent.
Almost everything that's happened in my poetry is what you might call organic. I don't do much preconceiving. The only consistent plan I've ever had is to try to break my patterns, my habits, my kneejerk tendencies in writing. If I start to sound too much like the Ron Padgett that I've read before, I stop myself. I don't want to get locked perpetually in a mode or a level of diction or a stylistic vein - what is called a poetic voice.
That's what I was gonna say. It seems like songwriters should express who they are through what they're doing rather than trying to go legit in that way.
If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.
Your approval gives others the confidence to serve, to learn, to try.
If it's not impossible, you may as well try. If it is impossible, at least you'll find out why.
Could you achieve the possible without trying? Could you achieve the impossible if you refuse to stop trying?
Russia has a long-term interest in Syria. Israel by and large does not have an issue with those long-term interests that Russia has in Syria. Israel has an issue with an Iranian regime that is trying to establish this land bridge, and that openly calls and actively works for Israel's destruction. And if you ask a hundred Israelis what they want to see in Syria, you're going to get 150 answers.
Watching National League pitchers trying to hit or even bunt is depressing.
I always try to get as personal as I can with the characters that I play, which is a reason why I don't play a lot of characters.
As a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.
