The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.
The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.
You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.
There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.
You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.
I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.
All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there.
I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.
The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.
A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.
You've got to listen to the universe, to life, to God, whatever you want to call it. Because its going to speak to you.
If we constantly give God the glory, then we don't have any glory to keep for ourselves.
Although, the flesh is weak, the Spirit of God is always willing, and He makes us able.
