Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
As entrepreneurs, we already know our most valuable asset is time, but not every entrepreneur knows how to properly use that time.
If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what's possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that's a valuable thing.
I, of course, was born as if I was a movie star in my head. Even though I had nothing, in my head I was always royalty. My mother always said, 'I don't know where you came from'. I didn't have their value system. And I always lived beyond my means.
But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.
I don't like vampires personally. I don't know any.
I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore.
If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.
Gravity Falls' normally follows very particular rules: we start out in reality close to the world as we know it, usually one magical element presents itself, and then it's essentially vanished or hidden back to where it came from by the end of the 20 minutes.
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
The reality is, risk is variable. Those in the financial world know it.
One of the reasons that DC, Marvel, and other comic book companies have always asked me to do covers and variant covers is because they know that when they tell me 'icon,' I jump over their words, and I give them an iconic cover - but while I'm doing it, there is going to be an idea there.
The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.
I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.
But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably.
If stores and vendors know there is a demand for organic products, they will make them. The more they make, the more the cost comes down.
