It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.
When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it.
So often we focus on finding answers to life's mysteries... when in reality, a wiser approach is to start asking better questions, and more of them.
I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.
If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.
Don't start a fight if you can't duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don't have others fight for you.
There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.
I considered moving to New York or Los Angeles, but they're two of the hardest places to move to when you're just starting out in a band.
I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.
All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.
When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some of my competitors were cheaters.
When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation that you could find straight pants again.
Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.
When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.
My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.
Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom.
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.
I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.
I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.
You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in.
The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'
