Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
In Afghan culture, you don't date - you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family.
When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.
'Doctor Who' began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on the sofa.
In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
I'm from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed I would be a doctor.
Cancer affects so many people, and even if it hasn't affected someone in your family then you know someone who has had it.
Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue.
My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.
I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.
Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.
Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.
Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.
Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered.
I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!
I'm probably the only person who goes to work and says 'Wow, it's really nice here and sweet,' even in the competitive movie business.
I've said this over the years publicly - this is not a lucrative business. My goal every year is to break even with the White Sox.
