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It's only when you're privy to the conversations and a member of the production team that you can direct the course of a series and make sure it flourishes.

Emotional life is - alongside work - one of the great challenges of existence and is a theme that I keep returning to.

I would call universities and community colleges and say, 'I really want to go to college. How do I get to college? What do I do?' And they would say, 'You have to get an application. You have to get...

People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.

Every time I went on the radio, I would take the crummiest radio station, the station that was like a toilet bowl. I would go on there and build up the ratings, so you couldn't do any worse.

Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into...

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.

I like things in their proper places.

The fact that Barack Hussein Obama became president is historic, to say the least. Actually, to become U.S. senator, that was historic, and then what he did later on - that's what inspired me to think...

I've said in the past that I'd like to play in Spain one day, because it is a league that is good technically and where you get a lot of touches on the ball, which is my style.

I wanted to write a book about what it's like to be 50 and trying to reinvent yourself - that struggle. There are all these books and inspirational speakers talking about being a lifelong learner, and...

Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.

Things repeat themselves.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

I love improv. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' the script was really great, but the directors were open to letting you try different things. And that felt like a muscle I hadn't exercised in a really long...

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.

Yelp is in a very nice spot: local data, and especially review data, is one of the killer apps on mobile phones.

A city of homes should not be built as a business center.

I'm looking forward to, as an actor, having to do some stuff that's out of my comfort zone. It makes for interesting work and when you're uncomfortable doing something; then it's going to be...

I'm supposed to be everywhere all the time!

When I sing my hits live, the feeling is electrifying.

I'm much more attracted to the miscegenation of cultures than to harmony.

I wrote 'Paava Kadhaigal' the same way I wrote my feature films 'Irudhi Sutru' or 'Soorarai Potru.' I was more honest in this film rather, because you can afford to be real and get away with it.

I just hate plugs. It just doesn't seem entertaining to me. I've never plugged anything in my life on a talk show ever. I understand people use that vehicle. It's just not very entertaining.

My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church.

In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.

I am never the favourite, but I live for that.

I really put my feet into my music, I have a say in how I want my music to sound and where I want it to go which is great.

I once did a film in which I was being chased by wolves. I had a scene where the Alpha of the pack leapt on the hood of my car and stared me down through the windshield. I will never forget staring...