The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.
I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.
Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that.
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.
It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.
We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.
I started playing around with GoPros on my own to get some cool footage. But it's actually become a big training tool for my team and me.
And all the zig-zags and lines in my hair? I used to do that myself. I just thought it was cool that you could actually do that with your hair.
I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.
You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.
If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.
I don't party. I'm a total homebody. I like hanging out with my cat, and I've actually been known to stay home and knit.
As every American who has ever received a paycheck is aware, the amount of money earned and the amount actually brought home are not the same.
I'm actually graduating early. I got a lot of work done already. Being home schooled, I have had a lot of tutors help me.
Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.