It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot.
I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target.
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
If you're trying to write about very strong horror, very strong fear or very strong emotion, it's easy to overwrite it.
I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable.
I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.
Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.
I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.
I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.
The future is open, and I never make plans. As long as it's interesting to me, I try to live my life to the fullest.
Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go.
I don't really think about my future. I don't really worry about anything. I just try not to spend all my money.
I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be left behind.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.
Speaking and writing English perfectly should not be a privilege. To those who try to politicize this matter, I tell them now, do not mess with the future of our children.
I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past.
Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.
