Well, I'm directing a lot of television these days.
Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.
You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.
I love HGTV. I love working on my house and have really been bit by the 'luxury remodeling' bug. 'Million Dollar Rooms,' 'Million Dollar Listing'. . . any show that can give me design inspiration, I soak it in and try my hand at it. Home Depot is my second home!
My favorite scene on the show [The Office] is on the booze cruise when I finally get to talk to her and tell her, and I react exactly how I would react by saying nothing.
Several months later, and I have finally read one of the three (books), even though I wanted to read all three of them immediately. What happened in between? Other books, is what happened. Other books, other moods, other obligations, other appetites, other reading journeys.