I prayed about it consistently - that God would direct me in the right path and that, when it would happen, I would know that I'm in the right place.
You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.
And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.
I used to be a pretty good hit-and-run man when I played in the minors. I handled the bat well and could hit the ball to the right side of the infield. Nevertheless, I know that you often give the opposition an out on the hit-and-run play.
I know when I am on stage and I'm kind of on the right track - hopefully most of the time. But a lot of time I'm not.
I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
Hearing 'no' a lot of times usually tells you either you're crazy or you're on the right track, and you don't know which one it is until you finally launch.
I look at some of my fans at my show, and a lot of them look like they're straight out of a punk rock show. They like what I'm coming across with. I had seen them same thing when I went to this Scarface show, so it lets me know that I'm on the right track.
I don't know how a man can live with himself to get to the top knowing he didn't do it the right way.
I never really thought about myself being in really big movies at all. In fact, I always though I'd do, I don't know, smaller movies is not quite the right word, but more character-oriented, dramatic things. I took myself a little bit seriously.
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
I honestly don't know whether I can ever top the experience of 'Pacific Rim.'
I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!
When I perform and the crowd is cheering, there's a ringing noise in my head. I'm just zoned in, and even though I know there are people watching me, all I hear is this ringing inside of me.
I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and party hatred are the last serpents which the genius of patriotism can crush.
Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
I have been robbed a bunch of times. And now that I know how to pickpocket, I understand why I have been pickpocketed so many times.
For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.
