I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.
The risks of speaking extemporaneously are apparent the first time you wing it and promptly put your foot in your mouth.
If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not be upset, for you are not wiser than God.
If you can't pronounce it, you probably shouldn't be putting it in your body or in your environment.
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.
Your eyebrows should be proportional to your face. If they're too overwhelming, it doesn't work.
Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.
If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.
But I think our humour is exactly the same today. Only, we've made rules now. We've said we are not going to do prosthetic make-up scenes, because when they take it off half your face comes off.
You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.
Inside of a living cell there are thousands of proteins that enable it to make more of itself and make your malaria drug, for instance. We don't understand those. We don't understand how they work together.
As I get older and maybe a little bit wiser, you realize how much stuff affects your body and what it can do. Cutting out carbs and sweets and trying to eat just proteins and fruits and stuff like that, more natural stuff, is what I have found has had the biggest impact on me.
Unless you have fixed costs, you don't need any capital to create a prototype. Ideally, your co-founders, with sweat equity, can create the product themselves.
Trying to forget or hide your mistakes is a huge error. Rather, hold them near and dear to your heart. Wear them proudly.
After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
Because of the Internet's open platform, entrepreneurs have started small businesses, innovators have created online services, and webcasters have produced a diversity of news-information sources. We must make sure that winners and losers are decided by the marketplace and not your Internet service provider.
Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.
Help me by whatever you are pleased to do in your provinces.
