You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!'
I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It's not the other way around.
We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.
With the world now a global village, your vision has to transcend different races and faces in different places around the world.
I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.
Life is filled with all goods and bads around each one of us,It's our rights to choose the path and we are responsible of all our deeds and consequences.
There's a rumor going around that I'm Miss Goody-two-shoes from Australia. Well, that's a laugh. I'm really Miss Goody-two-shoes from England!
Sometimes I don't even know why I'm writing what I'm writing... I'm just following these people around and taking notes.
When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.
I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.
No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.
You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.
I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned.
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
I've never been comfortable around groups of guys when it gets into the putting-down. My past being a kind of geek - it kind of turns into an attack on the weakest of the group.
Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.
There were the people that believed in me when I was walking around Spanish Harlem, saying that I was going to be a Hollywood actress. They were like, 'Yeah, you could do it!'
We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary.
Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.
