I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.
Genius is independent of situation.
Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.
Talking about the body getting old, there's a sadness to it in a way.
When people get into that fight-or-flight place, then they move away from the creative centers of their brain.
Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.
There's something about my Mexican-American heritage... I'm proud of it.
I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.
I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.
The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.
Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous.
I look forward to working out every day.
President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.
Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.
The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough.
The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.
Any idiot can point out a problem. So, bosses do.
I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.
