Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.
If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.
I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
If I find cool, open-minded people, want to do unique one-of-a-kind kind of project, I'll do it as long as I can.
If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.
It was good to learn so early. They're not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better.
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
As young as I look, I think it will still be funny if I played a person who's kind of tortured and hates his life. Kind of like a Larry David-type thing.
Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.
I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.
A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.
For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.
taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.
I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.
When you've found another soul who see's in to your own...take good care of each other..and remember to be kind..
At the end, nothing else matters, except love and kindness that you gave away, and love and kindness that you received.
You know, I grew up watching all kinds of films. So, as an adult, I wanted to be involved in all kinds of plays and television and film.
Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
