I bought a pair of Birkenstocks today - let's be real. I wanted a chunky sandal that was functional. That should tell you where I am at as far as fashion.
I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.
I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.
It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.
Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
I can recommend wearing blue mascara whilst writing. I'm telling you, it really adds something.
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard
Maxim 5: Close air support and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.
I feel that telling my secrets makes me less vulnerable. What would make me vulnerable are the secrets I keep.
You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
When Oprah Winfrey tells you that you need to have your own show, you feel compelled to do it. Especially if she's gonna pay for it!
Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.
I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.
I actually don't watch TV at all. If you asked me what my favorite TV show is, I couldn't tell you because I don't watch TV.
I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.
You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think.
If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.
