Telling people more about yourself and distinguishing yourself from your opponent - they're both essential parts of communicating with voters.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
It's not really possible to open 'The Casual Vacancy' without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There's no point pretending they're not there.
Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.
Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
I don't think it's good to be a distraction to your team.
The more emotional distractions you have the harder it is to accomplish your goals - especially at the extreme levels!
The stage gives you more control over your own work; in television, there's a distressing amount of communal writing. Unless it's your show, you have no control over that. You're at the mercy of whoever's running the show.
It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.
Interviews are vital, but you cannot allow an interviewer to take your life and disturb it.
Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.
Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.
So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.
It's important to be a divergent musician and do a little bit of everything, except you have to make sure your fans are aware of it and that you string them along the right way.
Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.
When I was growing up, all these superheroes were white. On some level, you put that out of your mind... but as you get older, you realize it's a very one-sided affair. So I'm very glad to see that these movies are becoming more diversified.
This is how people are going to listen to music now - streaming. So diversify as a band. It doesn't mean selling your songs to adverts.
Rushing around can be a pointless diversion from actually living your life.
Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
Income-producing unit trusts are brilliant because if you can accept capital values will be volatile for a while, your dividend income will always be higher than what you get in the bank.
