Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.
If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no.
When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.
Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.
If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.
I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good.
I'm not a horror guy, it's not my thing, but I respect it a lot. I know how hard it is to make, especially to make good.
People complain that joking about serious subjects is 'making light' of them. Isn't that a good idea? Comedy lets the air out of the bully's tires.
It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.
Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck.
A good stunt has to have both style and substance. It's a combination of impact and notoriety, the element of danger, technical execution, and the skill of the stunt performer.
After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance.
One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.
People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.
Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.
We live, in North America in general, if I'm given the indulgence of selling us down the river, in a culture of fear of this connective sense of spirit.
I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.
I don't know if I was funny as a child, though I always thought my parents really enjoyed listening to me sing.
God will not move unless I say it. Why? because He has made us coworkers with Him. He set things up that way.
I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
I came all this way for a reason. Today is the day of salvation. Trust Jesus to save you. Then be sincere as God knows a pretender.
