Oh, my wife is a wonderful cook. She comes from a food-loving Italian family - her father owned a pizzeria!
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.
Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.
I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.
I'm from a Cuban family, so we're used to talking really loud. You come to a Cuban restaurant anywhere in Miami, and we're practically screaming at each other.
My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.
My whole family is in orthotics and prosthetics, so I grew up having to check for scoliosis every week. 'Come over. Let me feel your spine.'
We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.
I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.
I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.
They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.
Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.
Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.
People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.
The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.
Now with all this movie business, everybody's coming around wanting to know everything that's happened since I was four. It's like going to an analyst.
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.
I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.
