I felt I was good in basketball but I wasn't a blue-chip prospect.
I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.
But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.
And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.
I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character.
Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.
I write a thousand words a day.
One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being something that keeps you company-background music, something that you have on while you're flipping through a magazine, cooking dinner, talking on the phone, putting the kids to bed.
I love how New York is so multicultural. I wish I was ethnic, I'm nothing. Because if you're Hispanic and you get angry, people are like, 'He's got a Latin temper!' If you're a white guy and you get angry, people are like, 'That guy's a jerk. '
If I'm 40 years old and wearing a 30 waist, that's pretty good.
Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.