It can be painful leaving parts of yourself behind. Change and shuffling off your previous skin is traumatic, but it can be done.
There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.
You have to be able to recognize defenses on your own in pro football. You can't look to the sideline and read some board. You've got to recognize the defense on your own, and then you've got to communicate to your offensive teammates what you want them to do.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there.
I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.
Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
If someone who doesn't know anything about wicketkeeping finds a reason to criticise, you have to sift it out. It's about working out how to deal with the criticism while improving your game.
Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.
It's kinda hard to date as an artist because you're all over the place, and your significant other may seem jealous, depending on what they're doing.
Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances.
Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.
One of the best games to play with a significant other is Nintendo's 'Super Mario Maker,' for the Wii U, which lets you build and play your own Mario courses.
The older you get the more realistic it is that you're significant other is your significant other. I mean, you'll always have your girlfriends or your guy friends, but the person you're married to is usually your No. 1.
I have no problem with free speech, but free speech and then silencing your opposition - boy, I have a problem with that.
Anyone who comes into your office with an idea, and it may be the silliest idea in the world, listen to them and never ridicule them.
Some comedies, they want you falling on your face and doing silly things.
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.
Simple idea with powerful consequences: everyone who intersects your life knows something you don't.
The idea is to eat well and not die from it - for the simple reason that that would be the end of your eating.
When you're left on the floor of a hospital gasping for breath, or you can't get your kid a school place, the simplest things are your idea of radical.
