I grew up in a town called Cornwall, Ontario, which is about an hour outside of Montreal.
I'm from a farm town that when I was a kid was about an hour outside of Omaha.
I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.
Demanding abrupt and expensive changes in public policy raises fair questions about ideological intentions.
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.
Whether or not Americans supported George W. Bush, they could not avoid learning about Abu Ghraib.
I've been very passionate about renewable energy for many years, particularly solar energy and its capacity to bring abundant clean, sustainable energy to millions around the globe.
I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.
There's something very polite about the British accents. It's sort of sanitizing.
A lot of my pieces are about easy seductiveness and accessibility in terms of showing skin.
I'm concerned about how accessible guns are.
There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.
I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.
The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
I'm a good learner. I can dig in. I knew nothing about mark-to-market accounting when I started the 'Enron' film.