I took music theory for one year in high school and flunked all but one six-week period. That's because I couldn't read music, and the rest of the class was already eight or nine years into it. The teacher would sit down and hit a ten-fingered chord ...
I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four of the six movies I made in Hollywood are science-fiction oriented, and even 'Basic Instinct' is kind of science fiction.
I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.
I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundred and sixteen soy sauce packets. I have three hundred and eighty-two dishes, bowls, cups, saucers, mugs and glasses. I eat over the sink. I have five...
The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We create 3-D obstacle courses in the lab - windows, doors, hula-hoops taped to posts - and ask the robots to fly through. It looks ...
When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know, going up an inch and down an inch, changing it from one shade of red to another shade of red. So it's the same as any creative process. The ...
Being tall when I was youngerl I was always a bit awkward. As a teenager, I was very, very thin, so I was very gangly and limby, and would sweep things off the table without realising how big my wingspan was - just out of control. A lot of women writ...
Her eyes are brown like the morning sand breaking in a new day.
Don't focus on the mountain; focus on the mountain mover!" HS/el
Solitude is a gift you give yourself every day.
Military life is hard, even cruel—especially for the kids.
This is who I was, before I was dead. When I cared, when I was relentless.
We have a lot of questions, and we want to understand. Music helps with that . Music helps with everything.
To maintain your honesty , one must know to keep alive the spirit of chidhood
They had set forth to rid their town of evil and had managed to rid it of pleasure as well.
Aamir discussed the emotional journey he embarks on with each film.
The day I met you is the day by which all others will be measured. — Levi Ian Bryson
Tip for the day: never eat a bible when you're starving to death.
I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day.
