This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
I think about issues. I use my economic training to devise solutions.
In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.
The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.
The journalists are so devoted to Obama. They are such sycophants that they're worried about access.
Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script called for him to swear for about 30 seconds and he just couldn't do it.
I was absolutely obsessed with the Titanic - not the film, the actual boat. I'd draw diagrams about it and theorise that if it was built in a different way, it wouldn't have sunk.
Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.
The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet dialect,' as it were.
The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects. I grew up speaking about seven of them.
I love accents in general. I'm obsessed with dialects, and I had to write a whole movie about it called 'In a World...'
I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.
I wrote my first song when I was about eight. It was about putting a diaper on a chicken!
I probably remember more about 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' than Dick Van Dyke does.
When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.
A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Drag is all about self-expression; there's so many different angles you can take on it.
