Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.
I pinch myself because of the understanding that I've been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get - to serve their government and their people at this level.
While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary.
I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.
Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.
I very rarely listen to music in my car - a lot of people make fun of me for it. But sometimes I listen to music on YouTube. I'm like a teenager.
I rarely go into a shop on holiday, because fashion and design are what I'm involved in every day. I need another world.
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.
From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.
Manuel is still today a good friend. The others I see rarely, but with Edgar I phone from time to time.
It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down.
I rarely buy a shoe that is completely specific to a time and outfit. I generally tend to spend money on good shoes that can go with everything.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.
It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married.
