I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!
In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions.
I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?
There are some songs that don't belong to The Animals that I refuse to give in to and not do. I enjoy singing other people's songs, you know. That's why they're written in the first place.
For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they should be prepared to face some downside as well.
I often tell people I don't care whether they join the NAACP or some other group, but you better join something.
Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.
Seems like people always want to think they're doomed. It brings them some kind of black comfort, I guess. Nate
I don't do it for Michael. I do it for them." "Them?" "People." "They're broken! Flawed!" "Yes, but some of them try to do better. Try to forgive.
People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.
It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people.
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.
I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.
Because I was surrounded by so much negativity at some point that it took me going back and doing stand-up to realize, you know, people really like me.
I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think 'this was a really goofy, unadmirable stupid time.
I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.
I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.
Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.
To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge turning point for that scene. We were involved in playing with all those people.
