My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.
Hopefully I'm a role model for positive change for everyone - not just women. It's very important to find balance between men and women.
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.
The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.
I have seen quite a lot of things in life. I would not like to change anything. Because every moment of my life has taught me something.
My only concern is that the L.A. Times opinion pages, unfortunately like too many in this country, are dominated by men, and I'd like to see that change.
Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
But the real focus should be on people who are buying today because the base is so big it will take a long time for any change materialize on an overall basis.
Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.
Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.
Violence and religion have often gone together, but it's not a perfect correlation, and it doesn't have to be a permanent connection, because religions themselves change.
The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
It is indeed possible to change your view of the universe from indifferent to friendly. I have helped thousands of persons make this transition in my workshops.
We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.
But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.
I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change.
I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.
