A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.
Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.
If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!
When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.
I have strong interests in supporting sport, primarily football, and also in developing cultural relationships within national communities and their diasporas, with special reference to Ethiopia.
Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission.
As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women's sports have arrived.
I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns.
Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
I'm not a big fan of doing it because I get really frustrated because I can't do any of the tricks, but I love to watch magic.
I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!
My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can't be expressed otherwise.
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
Anyone who knows me knows my mom, Dorcina, has to sign off on any decision and that she will play a major part in any decision.
But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.
Bill Sampson: Wherever there's magic and make-believe and an audience, there's theatre.
With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.
Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.
