I'm a writer. That's who I am, at my core. I'm a writer, and then I learned production and administration, along the way. I feel like most people can learn it because production and the administration part is all about logic, and it's all about learning rules and budgets.
Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.
My father felt that children should make their own way.
I expect that everything I do will be not watched or not seen. That way, I'm never disappointed when I become flooded with that reality.
A lot of people have been bent one way or the other on that. I'm not going to weigh in on that; I'm happy to still be at large, I'll just put it that way.
I've always wanted to have my own studio because this is a way for me to finally take all things that I've always dreamt about and actually put them into action.
American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington.
There are two ways to improve your service, and yourself: maximize your strengths and minimize your weaknesses.
The only way to go further than you've been is to take an extra step.
A: Set the pace and rule the race. Seek new ways to differentiate, new ways to surprise and delight your customers.
Preparation clears a pathway for success.
Be the exception to the rule. It's the surest way to become exceptional.
There's no such thing as the very best. If you're doing your best, it's only because you haven't yet found a way to do better.
A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.
At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community.
I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.
The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.
I write a lot, poems and such, and when I look at it the next day, I can analyze what the problem is and find the solution. It's the same when I watch myself on the big screen, but first, my vanity has to go away and so I have to watch it ten times. But when it has gone, and I don't think my nose is too big and everything else, then I start analyzing, and I think it helps me to become a better person.
Traveling changed my personality and gave me ability to do the music I do and to think in a certain way that everything can be possible.
There are some things around us that are not actually useful. I didn't know that before. It's very new for me to understand. That became my way of writing: I can see also the new myself.
In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once introduced, the word stuck. Whatever you do, it musn't be kitsch. This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium.
The product Disney created actually changed a life, and that was significant to them. They didn't stand in my way at all.
If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and in some way inure itself against the emotion.
To me, the lyrics mean more then the music, and that's the way it should always be.
So you can see that if you direct that force at several objectives, it becomes divided, and each objective receives a fairly weak stimulus, which results in a slow reaction, or no reaction at all. Do you have a great, ultimate goal to reach that requires attaining lesser objectives along the way? Well then, let the many lie inactive and direct your force at the nearest or first; once you accomplish that, take up the next and so on.
