The recent controversy over the portrayal of Ken Taylor and his embassy staff in the movie 'Argo' brought home to me the great responsibility we writers have when telling stories that involve real people.
I feel I have a great responsibility to be an active Latina. I've been rallying for DACA, and in the summer, I'll be rallying again so that people are aware that if certain senators are elected they can help impeach Donald Trump.
Rihanna is a very talented person. One of those people who are able to do whatever they want with great results.
The best way to advance in a career is to get great results while working with people.
I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.
It's not about the script: it's about who the director is and who the other people in the cast are. Because you can look at a great script and execute it in a very sophomoric way, and you can look at an OK script, and you can execute it in a very sophisticated way and come out with something really good.
I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.
People need service - great service where music is concerned.
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
I signed up for 'Brothers & Sisters' because I think it's a really great show. I like my character, and I'm really interested in what he has to do every day - and this cast is so spectacular. I really wanted to work with this particular group of people.
Growing up, I was always trying to catch a great show. And that's where I learned an artist gets respect. That's what makes people talk.
I don't want to sound hoity-toity, but people told me I should watch 'Cheers' because it's very funny. So I watched it, and I just went, 'This is the great show of the universe?' To me, acting is making characters believable, not just doing jokes.
That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that one. You know, a great song is a great song.
I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.
It's easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.
There are certain functions that a writer has to do. In a time of crisis, it is great to have heroic poems, as it was in the Irish Revolution. It's great to have great songs, because people need something to sing when they are marching. That's OK, but it should be on the side. It's not the ultimate thing.
Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting - but I love playing other people's music.
We just like to make great songs and have fun, and if people want to nominate us for a Grammy and celebrate it, then we'll take it.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
