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The respect from my peers is what means a lot to me. The guys I go up against each and every night. You know, to have their respect, I think that's huge. And that's what I care most about, to have the...

The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.

Qurbani happened at a time when all kinds of special films were happening to my career - 'Satyam Shivam Sundaram,' 'Shalimar,' 'Abdullah.'

I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

Whether you like him or not, hip hop needs Drake.

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

In broadcasting, you're pretty much married to your job.

A virus is not just DNA; a virus is also packaged up, covered over with a series of proteins in a nice, elegant, well-compacted form.

I was a painting contractor for a while and then a dog trainer. I opened my own business dog training and had some success.

I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.

In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.

Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.

When you act for a living, you are lucky enough to get to say things you really want to say. You get lines that you look forward to, lines that jump out like a jack-in-the-box; you're thinking: 'Wait...

A lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. A lot of non-white actors are not all that great.

In the world of poker, it's not heroic to try to function on a couple hours of sleep.

In tough times, one has to see if the fundamentals of the business are good or not.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

Understandably, no peace can be sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope.

It's all about the audience and the people who support your work and respond to it. So, anytime I hear that 'Next to Normal' is affecting people, it goes beyond my wildest dreams of what I set out to...

While you may watch what you eat, food is only half the battle. Liquid calories count just as much - maybe even more!

I always wanted to direct stories that are big scale and fantastical worlds.

American rock was, and still is to some extent, a closed shop. REO Speedwagon, Toto, Boston, Foreigner all those bands, and I wouldn't be able to tell which from which.

My favorite would be 'Love to Love You' because from zero, I went to Number One. I don't think it's the best song - the best one is probably between 'Flashdance' and 'Take My Breath Away.'

I own two beautiful homes, and I'm always half-expecting the cops to pull in, seize me with firm compassion, and escort me out.

New Yorkers are smart.

I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

Being world's champion is what I set out in life to do. I'm one of the few people on earth that can say they completed, in every aspect, what they wanted to do with their life.

I think my worst habit is struggling with technology, even though I know how this stuff works, I need to bring conscious thought into how I use.

Social work and politics never go together although the intention behind politics is social work.

I'm a can-do girl.

I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think...

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.