The higher a book's sales ranks, the better chances it has of being noticed by Amazon's internal recommendations engine.

I can remove the steel guitars and fiddles, make it more pop, cover ideas that are less cowboy. But you have to look at yourself in the mirror and ask, whose flag are you under? For Garth Brooks, I'm...

One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone.

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.

Every time you work on a political campaign, half the people hate you. That's how it is.

For all that we can see from the road in China, there is a lot that we cannot see. We miss what's behind the trees, the cover-ups, the darker side of things - the ingredients that so often drive a...

I think that when you first read material or you first read a script or story and know you might be playing a part, it's important not to see yourself because it should be a challenge enough that it...

Flashbacks rarely involve language. Mine certainly didn't. They were visual, motor, and sensory, and they took place in a relentless, horrifying present.

I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really...

I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I...

If you are young and healthy and you are playing a sport, you are not at danger from Covid.

There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.

If someone had written a review saying, ''Oh, Hello' is stupid,' we would have said, 'Yeah, it is. You're absolutely right.' That people liked it was extremely cool.

When we started Airbnb, I had no idea about the people we would meet or the friendships I would make.

I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

I played basketball in fourth, fifth and sixth grade because it was what my friends did. But in seventh grade, I decided I wanted to quit baseball, start playing basketball and really just try to get...

With the money I now have safely, I think I will retire at 66 years of age, praise God, in good health.

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.

When I see my kids totally into their Legos, it brings me back to the days I was hanging out and playing with my monster models. It brings me there in a second.

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of...

There are a lot of billionaires in Silicon Valley, but in the end, we are all heading to the same place. If given the choice between making a lot of money or finding a way to make people live longer,...

The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States.

The funny thing about commercials to me is that many of them now don't even mention the product until the very end. You don't really know what the commercial is all about. They're kind of like little...

I like to entertain.

Obviously it's great to train at home and not have to travel and stay in the same time zone. That's always great.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action...

I am the same as the public as my fans.

I've always wanted to be Batman, but I don't naturally tend towards Batman. I tend towards Robin, but I did get to play Superman.

If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.