There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
How we feel about ourselves as we read the newspaper, set the table, wash the dishes, recycle the trash and wash our clothes... is essential to our overall happiness and well-being.
You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
During long car rides to the set, after I study my script, I go onto my iPad to read books and play games.
If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternity' is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?
My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?
I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.
You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!
Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.
Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.
Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.
Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.
