Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
Despite some of the stories that have gone around, I've never had a big, flouncey strop about how much I'm paid. Considering I have a pretty interesting life out of making telly, I'm really paid quite well for it. So I'm not complaining.
I find working on brands some of the most interesting work you can do.
We developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years, but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organisation or whether there was government interference... but somehow, they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics.
Ours is the job of interpreting the Constitution. And that document isn't some inkblot on which litigants may project their hopes and dreams.
When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.
I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
I know some women are intimidated by makeup.
There are some problems on this planet that seem to be intractable.
For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.
There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.
I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point.
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
At some point, parents may become inured to a child's self-destruction, but I never did.
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
I have a lot of mice, I have a kitten named 'Girr,' I have an iguana named 'Invader Zim,' I have some fish, a whole buncha water snails, and a tarantula named 'Sweet Pea.'
In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.
I stay away from straight bench; all the work I do is with dumbbells to protect my rotator cuffs. Then I'll do a bunch of different pull moves like inverted rows before finishing with some simple internal or external rotations with a band to strengthen my shoulder.
There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.
I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way of organizing all of them.
