I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.
All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.
And at no point did making 'Brothers McMullen' feel like work or hardship. It was really just a matter of 11 days of fun over the course of 8 months.
There have been countless times where I've worked out with my kids crawling around all over the place. You just make it work.
In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.
I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.
The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.
You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.
As of the mid-90s, over 50 percent of women have a bachelor's and master's degree, compared to about 35 percent and 30 percent, respectively, in 1920.
When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.
Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.
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