I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.
L.A. can be intense, but the second you get over the hill into Calabasas, your stress level immediately drops because it's so peaceful and safe. Sometimes I really miss it.
Will the desire to maintain power and our level of comfort in our religious institutions equal the zeal of the Pharisees and Herodians who plotted to kill Jesus?
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.
On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.
If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens.
One of the biggest problems with people who think that they are smart is that they believe that the number of times they admit that they are wrong is inversely proportional to their intellectual level.
When we help others to perform at the highest level of their potential, we receive something of value; our character is strengthened.
I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have to do with me on a personal level.
We have a plan that creates universal access programs at the state level which allows folks to access insurance if they're denied by their insurer.
What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put on as rigorous a level as psychopharmacology.
I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.
The man who has done his level best…is a success, even though the world write him down a failure.
If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?
The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.
With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.
There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.
I use fast curves, pitched overhand and sidearm, fastballs, high and inside, and an underhand fade away pitch with the hand almost down to the level of the knees.
On a deep almost preconscious level we know, not with our minds but deep in our hearts the truth of the words, love never ends.
If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.
