It wasn't the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say they've played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie.
The turning point for effective communication is actually hearing what is being said, rather than hearing what you want to hear instead.
What's more difficult than knowing there's an effective treatment for your children, but you can't afford to offer it to them because it's not covered by insurance?
The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.
I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief.
If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.
It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.
Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.
I thought Godzilla was a mess, the monster had no character and the humans didn't either. They forgot to make the movie that went along with all these wonderful effects.
This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.
The question of feasibility, the question of cost, the question of including partners elsewhere in the world, the question of the effect of this project on arms agreements - all these issues are in discussion.
When people sleep, others stay awake to effect changes in the world. Every other person wakes up in the morning to a totally different world
Effective tax credits are used to create jobs and grow our economy. But tax credits that aren't delivering for Missourians must be retooled and reformed.
I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships.
I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.
Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.
I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.
I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.
