When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
You don't want to wait for that aged jockey role.
'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.'
At first, when my agent told me, 'They want you to do an interview, a piece for '60 Minutes,' I was like, 'What is '60 Minutes?''
That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.
If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about.
I don't plan to restrict myself to rapping in the future, and I didn't want to come off as too aggressive, which is why I thought about changing my name.
It doesn't matter how you're playing: you've got to be vocal - you've got to be aggressive - if you really want to be one of the best in this league.
The aggressiveness of it attracted me to hip-hop because I was angry inside. I was an angry kid because of the sickle cell. So I liked the anger in hip-hop. That's what attracted me to it; that's what made me want to do it. It helped me get my aggression out.
I want the women's division to have that legitimacy, I want it to have that intensity and the aggressiveness, and I feel like that's where I personally can contribute.
We must allow people to agitate for whatever they want. They must be allowed to campaign for their views.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
I don't want to be agitated so much on television. I don't need to watch any more agitation.
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself.
Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.
You always want to aim high.
We want people to tell us the possible steps that can be taken to save ourselves from the harmful effects of air pollution.