Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
People stayed with me and worked extra hard for me because I could see the potential in them - I'm not so sure they could see the potential in me.
I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
We need to make sure we have secure borders.
It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.
History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.
There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
ABBA was a direct influence on me.
We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.
I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.
Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.
The patience that goes with the game, the little things that go along with the game, you have so much more time to think in golf than you do in football - you have to keep your thoughts positive. I'm not sure I've got that mastered.
I think that I've always been attracted to characters who are positive and come from a very innocent place. I think there's a lot of room for discovery in these characters, and that's something I always have fun playing.
Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.
Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I've gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn't make you feel fatigued.
It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.
America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing.
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.
