Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.
I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.
You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.
When I have interns, I always say, 'Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.' People remember that - not an e-mail, a handwritten note in an envelope.
Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.
Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here.
Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.
If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
We may have lots of differences, We may not be the perfect couple. But in-spite of those differences, In-spite of those imperfection, We are always at our best for each other...
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people differently.
For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.
We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not.
Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.
Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.
When I was a kid I feel lonely, I have not many friends. If you make a movie, then you can work with different kinds of people and make different kinds of friend. That's very important to me.
And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon.
Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.
The whole world is global. With the Internet, it's like we're all living in a small village. We're starting more and more to realize there is no difference, we can work together, we can put aside our differences and work on our similarities and be su...
When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'
