When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it - MS overall, as a subject, as a disease - there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there.
Film is much more of a brand business, whereas on Broadway, you can do complete unknowns and have hits.
The best therapy is actually the more aggressive kind when they break you open; they unleash you.
I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock.
The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.
I've built my career on unpaid interns, and the interns told me it was great - I learned more from you than I did in college.
The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them - often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
Work is important, but you also need to disconnect, to unplug at times, in order to be even more concentrated when you do work.
Part of what Faith No More shows are is chaos and unpredictability.
I want more unpredictability. I want more realism. I think the fans would appreciate that, and that's what I've brought since day one.
I had left the music industry at the end of 2001, after 10 years, and had spent three years writing every single day - producing two unpublished novels, one abandoned novel, and three unproduced screenplays. The word 'no' and I were on more than nodding terms. The word 'no' and I were talking about going on holiday together.
Ultimately, I didn't quite find the company I wanted to join, but I met more than 100 entrepreneurs and realized that all these entrepreneurs were just as unqualified as I was. If I wanted to be this retailer of the future, or if I wanted to join the retailer of the future, I could just start it.
The overlap between Pavement's fan base and people who liked Silver Jews was total. In my mind, even a local band with 20 fans had more unqualified support.
Muhammad Ali was unquestionably one of the greatest boxers of the 20th century and a sincere advocate for his religious beliefs. In his life, he defeated the best professional boxers of his era, some of them more than once, which meant he was easily forgiven the excesses of his ringside braggadocio.
Unquestionably, the mission in Iraq has become more dangerous and difficult.
We have far more options for black Americans to tell stories outside of slavery, but whenever it comes to slavery, it's an uncomfortable subject. Why? Because it's the most unresolved subject in American history.
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
I never thought I was writing for kids at all. It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the books. If I'd known I was writing for kids, I might actually have spelt things out a bit more, and that would probably have killed the appeal.
