I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.
Never negotiate with kids. They don't have life experience, and they don't have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed.
There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.
As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.
You have to know this: running a 100m race is an intense experience. You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win.
The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.
Allowing your kids to watch TV doesn't have to mean they have no choice but to see commercials for junk food and alcohol.
You have to balance, but you can be aggressive as a chef. It benefits the food. You have to be passionate. You can't be angry cooking.
It is clearly the case that programs in Europe and the United States that have increased biofuel production have contributed to the added demand for food.
I don't have a huge breakfast, and I sometimes forget to have lunch, so I focus on dinner. I love Thai and Japanese food.
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
'True Blood' is truly a playground. You get to go in and just let loose and completely just have fun and play around. There is so much freedom on set.
I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard t...
When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
I'd like to have kids at some point. I think I'll have a family someday.
I have such respect for guest actors. They don't know all the characters as deeply as the regulars, and the cast isn't your family, so you have more at stake.
