Two days later I got a call that they wanted to try out the character for seven episodes. Eleven years and 22 Emmys later, Cliff was still sitting at that bar.
Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.
The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.
In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
I try not to go to sleep with makeup, because I think it clogs your pores. I always wash my face with something that contains salicylic acid.
I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.
When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.
I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.
When you come out of your teens, you think you're sussed. But you don't know who you are at 22. You're constantly trying to fit in. You get a little lost.
There are so many people who will try and make you feel like your opinion doesn't matter, and I've learned how important it is to use your voice.
During childhood, it’s about trying to help develop who your kid’s going to be. During adolescence, it’s about responding to who your kid wants to be.
I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey that's slowing everybody else down... not for a while, at least.
I'm not much of a water skier, my legs are too skinny for that, so I just try to tube and have fun, just ride.
I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
If there's something in the kitchen I like, it must be eaten. I try not to leave any snacks I wouldn't want to eat on a daily basis in the cupboard.
I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.
The issue is not to ask your customers what they want today, but to try to imagine what the customer is going to want in a world where, for instance, their cellphone is in their glasses.
Answers are what we are trying to get at; search is a process by which you may be able to get answers, but it's not the end goal. It's a mechanism.
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.
