It's not enough to be diverse in your casting. You have to service those characters; you have to make them fully well rounded because people are watching.
It's impossible to have a favourite Shakespeare, since so many of the plays rouse and inspire completely different parts of your being.
You get into your wellie boots and your Range Rover and, walking around with six inches of mud on your shoes, you get to forget about that more polished lifestyle.
Get your butt in a chair and write. If it comes out weak or bad or clunky or ordinary, then accept that this happens to everyone. Everyone. Get it down, get it done, and fix it in the rewrite. Just like everyone from Stephen King to J. K. Rowling to Chuck Palahniuk does.
If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.
Before you could actually have face-lifts, they would pull your skin around the back of your head with rubber bands, where they would tape it. And then you'd have to wear a wig over it to hide the rubber bands. It was not the most comfortable.
One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.
You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.
When you're pregnant, make sure your husband rubs your feet - and your neck and your back and everything.
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.
If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler.
I've got my bell rung, and when I first came in the league, the term wasn't 'concussion,' it was 'getting dinged' or 'had your bell rung.' So I had my bell rung a few times.
Your obligation as a base runner is to try and be safe within the rules. OK?
The Soyuz craft weighs tons, and you're lying on the floor of it on your back. But the Russians do tell you, remember, before you land, stop talking so you don't bite your tongue off.
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.
The pressure of the Premier League is huge but so is moving your family across the world to a club where they had sacked the manager every year for the last five.
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
