I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful.
Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.
It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.
I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.
I died last night. Seventy years too young.
As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.
I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.
Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.
It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.
I spent 10 years fighting for reform in Cook County, and I didn't change my DNA when I got to Washington.
I'm enjoying my years, I'm enjoying my life, I'm enjoying my family. I'm just happy - a happy person.
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.
The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly.
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
I'd love to do live-action superheroes. And you know, I boxed for several years. I have some martial arts experience.
In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.
As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.
I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager.
I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.
