I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.'
I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a period of time - comedy and tragedy go hand in hand.
Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.
While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.
I am often criticized for spending too much time off the ice, but if you were in my shoes, you'd see how necessary it is.
Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?
I have always enjoyed dressing up, but I don't do it as often as I would want to, because it's time consuming.
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Oogway: One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.
Carla Jean's Mother: It's not often you see a Mexican in a suit.
I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.
Obama's people will all often complain about how trivial and silly the media is, but there's no president who's probably benefited from this sort of trivialness or superficial nature as President Obama.
It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.
That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.
A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
