My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'
The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.
A New Year's resolution that I can never keep? To be able to make decisions.
There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.
It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.
I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.
But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.
Pain is temporary, it may lead for a year, a day, a month or a year but eventually it will subside but if today I quit I won't be able to stand again.
She needs to make one phone call, and she wishes she could make it into her past. Into last year. Or two years ago.
The War,' said a soldier proverb, 'will last a hundred years--five years of fighting and ninety-give of winding up the barbed wire.
Look at me - I was the boo boy for years and years. Did I ever think I would end up in Hollywood or the FA Cup final? No, I didn't.
How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.
I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.
I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.
Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.
Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.
In my sophomore year, a kid told me that the secret to getting women is to play really, really hard to get. I followed his advice, and I didn't have so much as a date that year.
I was a cheerleader for nine years!
If you let the weeds grow for a year you will need seven to clear them.
One night of anarchy does more harm than a hundred years of tyranny.
