I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.
I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.
The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
We forgot that many, if not most accomplishments will not leave the world a better place, which begs the question of whether they are really accomplishments at all.
I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.
We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives.
Maybe I'm just a psycho, and the stage is a better place to go than either the loony bin or somewhere else.
People move from place to place and job to job, but they no longer need to lose touch.
Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places of the feathery tribes of our country.
The world is a place of endless love with people who express unconditional love, but also a place of hatred by people who express it.
If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place.
You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing.
I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming from a loving place instead of a political place.
I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.
The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
It's important for a dancer to wear very tight underpants. I used to feel a bit exposed if I wasn't being held up in the right place.
There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so.
I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.
