Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.
One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.
For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography. They break the rules and admit the thing that is imagined, but is not licensed to be imagined.
I've had lots of ups and downs. I've had situations where I've gone against the rules, and I've lost everything.
Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don't necessarily think they are bad.
That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
We have very specific rules about how we go to market with children, and I think they are very responsible.
One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.
We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.
A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt.
When preparing a presentation, it’s never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you’re focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.
My relationships were never equitable. My husbands were always older than me, and they made the rules, they ran the show, and I followed them.
The real crime of Hosni Mubarak is that he ruled for 30 years and left behind an Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood is the single strongest player.
I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen.
I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways.
The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
Helena, like many women who ruled their own lives, adored being told what to do when there was no obligation to follow the advice given.
