Life is beautiful,though the circumstances and situations around us may not say so,but life is certainly beautiful
I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat, and I built a boat.
I was a freshman in college in 1980, the year that Reagan was elected, and I went around badgering people to vote for him.
I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.
I'm moving around; doing stuff. I can walk. I can even run.
I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood.
I know I've been lucky. But it's what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around.
Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way.
The heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.
I barely watch TV. Somehow, I make it work with just the Internet. On TV, there's always so much crap, and you have to flip around.
People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.
I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.
There have been countless times where I've worked out with my kids crawling around all over the place. You just make it work.
I have one message for young musicians around the world: Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.
You cannot manage an airline from a corner office in Willis Tower. That doesn't work. You've got to manage by walking around.
I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
I don't like waiting around for work, and sometimes as an actor you're forced into that position, so that's sort of how I got into writing, producing and directing.
The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.
I work for the Global Fund for Women, an organization that is actively supporting women's rights groups in 160 countries around the world.
And then there is that day when all around, all around you hear the dropping of the apples, one by one, from the trees. At first it is one here and one there, and then it is three and then it is four and then nine and twenty, until the apples plumme...
