With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren.
You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
The doctor asked what my diet was like and I had to sit down and realize it's not normal, and hadn't been normal for about 20 years.
I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that's exciting to kids. Reading books and going to a bookstore is not that exciting.
So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.
If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal.
They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.
When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes. It comes down to people's personalities and individual energies.
When I want to relax, I plop down on my couch and watch some great movie, usually a British drama - anything with Colin Firth.
It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.
I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
Adult Swim's philosophy is, 'Put it on the air and if it works, great. If it doesn't, take it down and try again.' It's a refreshing way to do TV, I think.
I've got all these great broads in me, all these character women. I was playing a torn-down stripper at twenty-five on Broadway, and now I fit the shoes.
When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.
What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.
I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.
If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.
Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.