You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
We get paid for bringing value to the market place.
I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.
Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
Even after Jim Crow was supposed to not be a part of the South anymore, there were still ways in which you couldn't get away from it. And I think once I got to Brooklyn, there was this freedom we had.
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.
I've always wanted to do a female buddy film, the kind the guys get to do.
I'm a Buffalo wing magnet, a sandwich fanatic, a cheesesteak guy. But I'll only get a cheesesteak in Philadelphia. No one else does it right.
In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket.
Tact ops is a unit which breaks into homes and offices to plant bugging devices. They get into mafia hangouts, they go into embassies, they go into terrorist hangouts, and they describe themselves as court-sanctioned burglars.
The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.
I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
I would love to get bumped up to be team captain, or even Asuka. Either-or. We can even be co-captains.
The buzz is still with me. I get goose bumps.
The failures are the people who never get off their bums.
You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
It's hard to get burned out or uninspired, man.
