I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.
We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.
Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.
I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.
Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.
I've played D&D for years. I'm a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me.
It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey,' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!'
The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had - it's a fresh start.
He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.
I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies.
I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never thought I'd have.
So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.
In '42,' it's like the '40s where racial equality had come into the consciousness of a lot of people, whereas in the 1900s it was sort of a new thing.
I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored.
I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.
It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
Soups are a great way to introduce a lot of vegetables to kids. Stir-fries, too, because they contain so many different shapes and colors.
Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.
