Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.
I don't think there are hour comedies, but if there were, I would have been open to it.
You have to hold on to what you find because life has a way of throwing you curve balls that you never expect.
I would say if I was any type of nerd, it was probably a band nerd.
There's no way that you're going to please all of America, or all of the fans.
I think that's important to have in something like a national television show. It's important to portray a woman realistically, and not just as a bridezilla.
I keep expectations so embarrassingly low that I broke my contract and went and got a hair-cut.
You always have energy to do what you are passionate about.
Only while they are conforming their actions to the model of some archetypal hero do the Arunta feel that they are truly alive, for in those roles they are immortal. The occasions on which they slip from such molds are quite meaningless, for time immediately devours those occasions and reduces them to nothingness.
I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold 600 copies but that was considered very wonderful. I would prefer to sell 20,000 copies because the readers loved it. When I write books I don't actually think about the market in that way. I just tell myself the story. I don't think I'm talking to a 10-year-old boy or a six-year-old girl. I just write on the level the story seems to call for.
It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution entailing a fine of fifty dollars and a jail sentence. . . Our ignorance was the greatest hold the South had on us. We knew we could run away, but what then?