You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.
It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.
Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.
I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults.
The Senkaku Islands are an integral part of Japanese territory based on international law as well as in the context of our history.
To get a former player that has been there and has that extra intel. Jose Higueras is a great coach for that and a great person as well.
I did a film in which Andy Garcia and Michael Keaton both played the leads, 'Desperate Measures,' and interestingly enough it was their biggest payday. The film didn't do well, and it kind of marked their careers. They've done less since. It all changed.
Russia may well be willing to stop interfering in Eastern Ukraine in exchange for a degree of sanctions relief if it could be assured that ethnic Russians there would not face reprisals.
It's been a lot of fun from script to script to get inside the mythology of 'Grimm.' We've been given a lot of freedom to explore the mythology as well as the backstories and interpersonal connections of the characters.
Derbies are always well fought and with lots of fouls and interruptions.
There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.
This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.