I was always bossy as a kid. I made my friends do shows that I wrote and would take them on tour from house to house.
Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed.
When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience became involved.
In the '80s, I was the only one who didn't watch the shows about teenagers. I had to go over to friends' houses to see them. I still don't have a TV!
Once I graduated from NYU, I started making custom vintage tees for my friends and it just took off from there.
When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to any one idea.
My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother.
All her life, dreams had been her friends. Her dreams were unusually detailed, well-structured, colorful.
I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends.
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!
Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.
When success is uniform, the celebration becomes universal. Of which use is it to you to rejoice at the time your friend cries?
The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.
your mind is like this water my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear
A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.
But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state.
Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend's prayer because she's asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship.
The angel of death can hardly have friends. And the prom, what about Danny? He can hardly have a Valkyrie for his date.
If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.
You automatically are trusting because not only is the person a friend, they are so incredibly gifted that you know someone is going to be able to hit the ball back to you across the net.
It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.
