I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
Experience tells us that whereas that degree of recognition can happen for one or two actors, for the vast majority it doesn't, so what matters is to try and be a better actor.
They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
When you talk to family and friends, they can't tell you anything from an impartial point of view because they have a vested interest in you.
The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.
I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.
There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.
We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.
I know that Montana is the greatest place in the world to raise a family, to start and grow a business. You know it, and I know it and now we will tell the world.
I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.
Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.
It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.
Women in pro-ams are always telling me about all the business deals they've struck on the golf course playing with their male work colleagues.
It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.
The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.
The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.
I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.
And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.
Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.
