Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.
My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'
Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.
Check the card before you play. If you have a couple of long par 3s, put an extra hybrid in your bag. You'll be glad you did.
Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.
The Arts are not drugs. They are not guaranteed to act when taken. Something as mysterious and capricious as the creative impulse has to be released before they can act.
I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.
'The Hangover' was, like, solid. I laughed a bit, you know. Seven out of 10, maybe. But I made it 32 minutes into 'Hangover 2' before I walked out.
Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.
Imaginative mind is the seed of every dream and every vision. It always starts from our minds before the manifestation.
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice.
I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.
I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond.
Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks.
There is something about New Orleans that embodies passion; I've never seen that before. There's something tangible about the essence of the city. You can taste and smell it.
It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.
Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
