I started writing diaries, and mine were horrible. Oh, the monotony. Oh, the angst. I said, 'I don't want anyone to find these!' I destroyed them.
Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.
The thing about talent is that it comes at different ages, sometimes at a very early age. That's when I find it to be the most challenging.
I find discussing mathematics with colleagues of different backgrounds one of the most productive ways of making progress.
I find it fascinating that you can look at the same problem from different perspectives and approach it using different methods.
I find that different types of music are good for certain activities.
For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have.
I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
I find dipping one's toe into all of these people's lives is one of the major exciting points of being an actor. This dilettantism.
Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.
I do find it a bit disconcerting when your name becomes a brand.
It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.
I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.
I don't know the statistics, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out that a disproportionate number of comics come from broken homes.
In theory, the filibuster helps whichever party is in the minority in the Senate. In practice, it is the Republicans who have disproportionately used it to engage in cynical and anti-democratic obstructionism whenever they find themselves in the minority.
Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
I've tried writing with music on, but I find it distracting.
I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.
