A lot of new dads don't realise that you can't take your 5-year-old along to see something like 'The Avengers.' Modern superhero films are too violent, and the dialogue is far too convoluted for a child.
Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.
I was a dishwasher at one of those Japanese places that cook on your table. Not too fun.
Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.
An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.
I wanted to come up with a hybrid show of sorts that wasn't your traditional 'dump and stir' type of cooking show.
One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can't be too precious about your ideas.
When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.
We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.
Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.
Whatever things you go through, you stay true to who you are and your core values.
Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice, and then communicate consistently in those terms.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.
Your words smell of corpses.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Each of you is a unique child of God. God knows you individually. He sends messages of encouragement, correction, and direction fitted to you and to your needs.
