My obsession with outer space is my way of being different. I make astronaut music. It takes an astronaut so long to get to space - that's how long it takes to catch up on my music.
In terms of negotiating a career - I've always grown up being an insider and an outsider to different worlds, across different classes and cultures, so I have always naturally liked making films or music that puts things in unexpected places.
I try to be eclectic in my choice of films. If I've done anything that's intentional in my career, it's to try to do as many different types of characters and as many different types of genres of movies that I can.
[Jennifers from two different times confront one another] Young Jennifer: I'm old! Old Jennifer: I'm young!
When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has different properties, and a person's natural tendency is to reject that organ.
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.
A person could himself distinguish the human beings into different kind only, but a different person being only kind could distinguish himself to be a human.
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.
