If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.
I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.
I wouldn't mind being dead - it would be something new.
I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.
It would be very tempting to say that why paint because we have Michelangelo, we have Leonardo [Da Vinci], we have all these guys. Why waste your time, because most likely you're not going to be on that level anyway.
I could do a few more sit-ups and my waistline would be less difficult.
Maybe today I would call Fred Leuchter and there would be two or three other documentary filmmakers interested in his story simply because of the exposure.
If you told me thirty years ago that people would be parodying documentary films, I never would have believed it. It wasn't clear that the films themselves even had an audience, let alone an audience for parodies of them.
If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.
But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.
I thought a circus environment would be an interesting venue to explore, where you didn't just have one tent with three rings and a show going on but where you could explore different things in different tents.
I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister.
If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.
When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage.
Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices.
If things aren't as successful as you thought they would be, sometimes that's not the worst thing that can happen. Sometimes that can be the best thing to push you in another direction that you were supposed to go in. Or to have an experience that you were supposed to have to grow.
We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.
I think [Karl] Marx, Pope John XXIII or Rosa Luxemburg [had achieved the mode of existence].But it would be useless to look at a list of illustrious names.
That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
Janet Jackson is an icon, I've been honored to meet her a few times, working with her would be amazing.
What would be impressing to me, is in 30 days you see a change in your life.
I would say that what's been mobilized to this point - something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required.
I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it.
I love all my Wrights and it would be impossible to say which one I love more, but if you really pushed me, it would be Joe.
I ate while I was taking chemo. The doctors didn't know. I really didn't get any nausea. I didn't have side effects. I would be drained for a day and a half.
