Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.
However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.
What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.
I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.
If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.
Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.
The highest levels of fame in the entertainment business are geared toward keeping the artist disconnected, disinterested and continuing to make product and not developing any sort of 'normal life.'
Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to big companies.
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.
If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.
I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.
If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works.
When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.
If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.
In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.
Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.
It's incredible in our sport how small the differences are, and we are all aware of that. We're all on a high level and skiing well, and at the end, it's just hundredths that count. Maybe it's just one finger or a hand can change the color of a medal...
On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.
