We are probably one of the last generations of Homo sapiens.
I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.
I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.
I was on the elections committee in my last session in the state House of Representatives.
And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.
When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.
I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really.
Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?
I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.
Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.
In some ways, 'The Little Mermaid' was old-fashioned. Rendered in the hand-drawn style, it was the last Disney animated feature to use cels and Xeroxing. Pixar and its CGI imitators soon made that rigorous process obsolete.
I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.
For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.
I am quite hot-headed; I am quite impulsive. Fortunately, it doesn't last very long.
A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.
Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.
The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent.
Writing is rewriting; rewriting is writing - from the first crossed-out word in the first sentence to the last word inserted above a caret, that most helpful handwritten stroke.