I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.
I'm on the advisory board of Alex's Lemonade Stand, which is a children's cancer charity. I'm so proud to be on that and help them.
Making a movie in Hollywood is a bit like playing a board game, where you have to throw a six to start.
There are things which cannot be clarified even by the mighty black board. Sit and talk to your close friends for that!
There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.
There's a fine line between saying, 'You can't tell me what I can and can't do,' and taking on board people's opinions.
My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.
In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company.
I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.
The only place I considered home was the boarding school in Yorkshire my parents sent me to. It's easier, isn't it? I mean, it gets kids out the way, doesn't it?
My dad is a very good sounding board. He's very, very smart. Both of my parents are very, very sharp, much smarter than I, I'm happy to acknowledge.
I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.
These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect.
It's hard when you put a year of good work into something and someone at the top says no, and they pull your show's title off a bulletin board and chuck it in the trash.
Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.
With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.
The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.
). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
If you are upset with another’s words towards you; be cautious of your reactions, for you are only meant to be a sounding-board for his soul
