I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.
I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.
The German public knows me quite well. I have been in their kitchens and living rooms for years.
Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it; it's a pleasure to make a living that way. Then there's the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits.
As a global society, we have the technology, resources and the know-how to make a massive difference to living standards everywhere, including for refugees.
In Korean, the word 'future' is made up of two parts. The first part means 'not,' and the second means 'to come.' In that sense, 'future' means something that will not come. This is to say the future is now, and our now is us living our future.
I have felt the inspiration of the living God directing me in my labors.
Among them, there were Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together. But then violent organizations came, bringing with them many large groups of people from various parts of the world to Palestine.
Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it.
In the last century, I earned my living as a librarian, and I loved it. I'd have to take some classes to get up to speed with 21st-century librarianship.
Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year.
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.
In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.
Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
The fact that healthier lifestyles and advances in medicine mean that we are living longer is actually something to be celebrated.
I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi.
There's fears in everyone's job. Ours are in the limelight, and people think we're incredibly privileged or nuts to do what we do for a living.
Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.
If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.