I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.
Each day I have the option to choose between one of two words. This choice will set the course of my day. "my" will or "Thy" will be done !!!
I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation.
I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.
I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you don't set goals, then you have nowhere to go.
The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free.
We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.
Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.
For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they'll do in any scene you put them in.
I often set two alarm clocks because I'm afraid the first one won't actually make me get up.
When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.
I knew I would lose my job when I accidentally set fire to my best friend’s house.
People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.
I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman came to see our show, We all had a drink before they set off on their travels, and we kept in touch.
We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.
Businesses should absolutely set aside funding in their budgets for security consultants. Unless there is an expert on staff, and there usually is not, it needs to be outsourced.
What hasn't surprised me is that audiences, as we found starting with box sets, want control, to decide how they watch it. Appointment viewing is slowly being put slightly behind.
I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!
Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!'
