I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.
The youth of Taiwan not only have to face the harsh reality of low wages and high commodity and housing prices, but due to the lack of employment opportunities, many young people are forced to leave their home towns to search for jobs in the cities.
Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.
I am hurt that some people criticise very harshly without even realising the hardships which we go through.
I think I've always been interested in playing people who are judged very harshly.
In 1945, when the Second World War technically ends in Poland, the incoming Soviet army liberates some groups of people but begins to oppress the general population, in some ways more harshly than it had happened before.
Sometimes a politician gets up and talks about British values and what we think that means, and we can be knocked down quite harshly, but I don't think we should be. I think we should be able to talk about British values and about immigration without people saying, 'Oh, you're just being like a crazed other party.'
So much of Sue Sylvester, the angry woman, came from that part of my life, wanting to crush other people's dreams and judging others so harshly, which is always just a way of deflecting your own self-judgment.
People tend to take more risks in groups than alone. For these reasons, the law has always treated conspiracy harshly.
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination.
I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
Many older people I know are focused on the past. When they talk about the future, they are, quite understandably, preoccupied with the hassles and obstacles of their increasing age.
People don't hassle me. It's always very friendly anywhere in the world.
There're a lot of Republicans in the state of Texas that vote by mail, probably more than Democrats. We make it an incentive to make it easier for seniors to be able to vote. I do believe, from a personal experience, it discourages people from voting. It's the hassle of getting the stamp that is my biggest concern.
In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
My first job out of law school was representing people on death row in North Carolina, where I often saw the impact of hasty prosecutions.
I think in our society we too often choose the people we associate with based on our own hasty judgments.
