Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Generally, I don't bother trying to keep up with prolific bands - but Thee Oh Sees demand it.
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
The Environmental Protection Agency rarely follows up prosecuting coal companies and their fellow polluters, even when the evidence is clear-cut that they are dumping and poisoning entire towns near their projects, and the state regulators are even worse.
In pursuing reform, we have to navigate uncharted waters. We may also have to confront protracted problems because we will have to shake up vested interests.
All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.
I grew up in the public schools, my mom taught in them, and then my daughter is in them.
I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.
The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.
My father was the classic Puritan. Hold the emotions in check. Keep up appearances.
Janeane Garofalo ended up, in a sense, being pushed by the media into becoming a pundit.
I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.
I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.
I want to be up front racing.
By June 1990, I'd racked up 'written by' credits on both 'Newhart' and 'The Simpsons.'
The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.
