The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.
One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.
In dream consciousness... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.
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...
I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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.
The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
I think for anybody, any family, and I know there are families out there that are going through this even now, that it is the hardest thing in the world. Nobody is ever prepared for it.
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.
While GeoCities isn't cool, it isn't a bad thing. It did a great thing - enabled great people to instantly publish to the Web.
I'd really like to work with Johnny Depp: he seems like a really cool guy; he can do a lot of different things.
One of my favorite things I read was John Steinbeck's journals while he was writing 'East of Eden,' which was so cool.
One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.
Having done 'Misfits' for three years solid, you become known for doing one thing, so I've wanted to change things up as much as possible with each job.
If you're unwilling to try new things and to fail and learn, you don't have a shot. That doesn't mean you are going to be successful, but you have to try to change.
