I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.
Viewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him.
You put a movie star or a bunch of movie stars in a movie, it doesn't mean people are gonna go see it. It's been proven time and time again.
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
Time is the only critic without ambition.
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.
I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.
I loved my time in Congress, but people who spend all of their time planning to run for office have very few useful skills to deploy when they finally get there.
We promote domestic savings by also things like the personal accounts associated with the president's Social Security initiative, which over time would generate more savings.
Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating to...
What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way its story was transformed by time.
There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.
For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.
There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that.
I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.
It's just a given that women are working and are ambitious and have things they want to accomplish, and that stymies the amount of time they have to look around for a perfect guy.
I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me.
Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.
It is my goal to learn as much about the people I'm surrounded by. I am slowly widening who I am close with, and at the same time, growing further away from others.
