I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.
Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.
Meeting people who want to start a charity, help out their families, or raise money for a good cause has been really fun.
The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity.
I'm a sucker for giving people money on the street. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I can't help myself.
I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.
I never thought about being the highest paid. I just wanted to be someone that people cared about watching, and I feel I'm a good actor.
It's always nice when people appreciate your work because it means you've affected them, which is great. And so that feels good.
I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.
Why are people always shooting zombies? Why not just chop their heads off? How can zombies get you if you have a good sword?
I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.
Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.
I really do hope that the people will like 14:59. The critics seem to like it. We got a lot of good reviews.
Glee's good because it tackles the issues by embracing what's different, and telling people, 'That's what makes you special' - I think that's the underlying thing.
I've been fortunate to work with Alfre Woodard and Jeffrey Wright; people who are artists, have careers, longevity and full lives. That looks good to me.
People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.
Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy.
If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.
