I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to my own writing, in a competitive way.
I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn.
For American families, Universal pre-K is an essential piece of the puzzle that not only allows their kids to get a good start, but it also allows mothers to remain on the job earning a paycheck and helping our economy grow.
When you play a guitar for a long time, you get your hand oils in there; it starts feeling good and behaving, and you just don't want to mess with that.
I do like beer, but lately I've started drinking non-alcoholic beer and I like the taste of it and I don't get the alcohol, so that's a good alternative also.
Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, start doing it now, get good at it, and show people what you've done. Actions speak louder than words.
Sometimes a sound gets overused. There is such a thing as a good saxophone, but it's like those fields in agriculture - they need to rest for a year or so. You need time to burn all the saxophones and start from scratch.
If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.
I am starting to get into this whole idea of caring about what I wear. There was a time in my life when I could not care less about fashion.
I got out of school in 2000, and I always wanted to be on 'This American Life,' since I first started telling stories. And that, I mean, that show is a little bit of a fortress. It's really hard to get stuff on that show.
In real life, I first started sleep walking in high school because that was when this concept of getting into college first appeared. I had this moment of, 'Oh! This is going to affect the rest of my life.'
When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.
I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
When you're a front man for a band, there's nowhere to hide. It took me a long time to get used to that. But music is my first love. I started singing when I talked.
Stop worrying about where you are at the moment and start getting excited about what the future holds for you through consistent actions and faith.
The biggest thing that concerns me is when we start getting countries using cybercrime to shut down infrastructure, electricity, communications systems, the Internet, et cetera.
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.
You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do.
Show off your own style and uniqueness to stand out. That's the advice I'd give to people getting started online now.
It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.
If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed.
