I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you.
What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.
I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
I've got some real diehards down in New Zealand; I look after them and make sure they always get tickets.
People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.
At the end of a down day on Wall Street, we all need to be able to sleep peacefully at night. That comfort won't come from our bank balance.
The imagination of creative thought can be a crazy place,this giving reason to write it down to try and make sense of it all.
Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial to the poem.
Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.
My way of viewing the talking filibuster was as a way of doing unanimous consent with your feet. You object by going down and talking.
When my son was born, I decided I wasn't really into working 12 hours a day. That slowed me down a little bit.
Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while you're waiting to kick the door down.
Turns out, Down syndrome is the most common genetic disorder, occurring once in every 800 births, and no one really knows why it happens. It just does.
We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are.
If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the surfaces, then it will be more fun and more interesting.
When you have risk aversion in Japan, the normal day-to-day outflows that happen in a normal market environment slow down.
You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
The fun of the Super Bowl is the week leading into it; once it's actually played, the story dies down very, very quickly.
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.
'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense that there are so many characters and so many locations.
