For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.
When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.
With 'Mad Men,' you feel like you're a member of Seal Team Six when you're shooting.
I was the youngest member of the New York International Brotherhood of Magicians. It was me and a bunch of 60-year-old Jewish men.
You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Girl Scouts is a girl-serving organization, so our members are girls.
There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.
The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.
There's not one cast member of 90210 who didn't throw a tantrum to two themselves.
The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.
I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that the audiences were eroding.
Korean audiences are amazing. The fans scream so loud, and that really surprises skaters when they first perform in my shows.
I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.
I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.
The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted such realistic films.
All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.
