Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.
But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.
When I first started on 'Medium,' they didn't like me growing my hair too long. But I was freaked out when the hairdresser cut off even an inch.
Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.
Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
Hollywood is a challenging place; it's very easy for people to lose their heads. Fortunately, I grew up on it and I think I have a little bit of a head start.
The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history.
IF we don't start to rethink how we are acting now...We will pay the price later for our "old-stinking-thinking" style
Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me.
My most successful books, the ones that I feel the strongest about, are the ones that started with a premise that for me was deeply emotional.
I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block.
Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. I'm on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.
When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was.
Brands are in your face 24/7; I'm sure you've consumed a couple brands today. So it's fun working with them. People recognize brands, and people are starting to recognize my brand.
Proprietary software grew up, starting really in the 1980s, as an alternative and that became the dominant model with the rise of companies like Microsoft and Oracle and the like.
I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action.
So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.
I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails.
Part of the challenge of being a black Republican anywhere is that you start off with people walking in with chips on their shoulder trying to figure out what is wrong with you.
