There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.
I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.
I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.
There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.
General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?
I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.
For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would influence your life, culture or the conduct of nations.
I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself.
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.
It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.
When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time.
Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
With the general availability of Windows 8/RT and Surface, I have decided it is time for me to take a step back from my responsibilities at Microsoft.
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.
The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.