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Really I've just gotta be making really great music that I love and not worrying too much about what other people are gonna think about it.

I made my kids into Viking fans, so they will carry their misery with them, too. A little disappointment in life goes a long way.

My ball striking was already good when I turned pro, so there wasn't a whole lot that I could really necessarily improve on.

As a young actor, it's important to see how the greatest in the industry work... diva behavior is never it.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.

When I was playing well, nobody was saying I was playing well. When I was playing badly, I would be the first one on the front of the journal.

I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be.

Bill Murray is such a tremendous talent, but the world wasn't ready for 'Razor's Edge,' for something that thoughtful and with that much depth at that time in his career.

At the end of the day, I thought to myself, 'What do I want to be doing?' And yes, I want to be a part of this industry and in sports broadcasting, but more than anything else I want to be a great mom...

Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels like different bits of my head are springing into action.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

If someone were to actually come to one of our training sessions, there's lots of flipping and sweating and crying and blood going on all over the place. I mean, if that doesn't qualify it as a sport,...

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

David Anspaugh, who was my first director, on 'Rudy,' was all about empowering the actor, making you feel comfortable and appreciated, allowing you to keep your dignity, and treating you like a man....

You have to be ready at all times. You never know when the big kicks are going to come.

It's me that's the problem! It's me who's the issue in a relationship, but I'm working on that.

The notion of what is public and what is private has been dissolved. My children see documentaries; they see Instagram. Everyone is very open: it has become less taboo to expose lives.

I don't pay attention to the ratings.

Singers like Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar are very conscious of what's going on around them, and they're waking up a lot of young people with that knowledge. They bring their enlightenment to the world;...

As an African-American athlete, you get discouraged that this type of thing is still condoned in people's lives. You look at a situation where we're good enough to work for you, but not good enough to...

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

So many musicians are coming to the forefront and are becoming household names.

During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

The fastest way to get around the southern Chinese city of Foshan is on the back of a motorcycle-for-hire.

I think if there was no violence in our world, there would be no violence in film. Violence is a part of human nature, and obviously it's a troublesome part of human nature. You always have...

I've been lucky. I've been at a place that's a meritocracy. It doesn't really matter that much what your gender is if you do the work well.

There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?

I always like to give and present my actors in a different look.

For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science, and medicine.

Reality shows are giving a fair chance to singers hailing from far-flung areas like Jharkhand and Jhansi, which otherwise wouldn't have been recognised at all.

Just because you fall in love with someone doesn't necessarily mean they're a good partner for you to be with over the long term.