Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it’s a very weird place to be. Joe Cocker Read Quote
I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, ‘Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger’s girlfriend. I thought, ‘God, is that all I’ve been?’ I didn’t want to be reduced to that. Joyce Maynard Read Quote
You have to be consistent in your work, consistent in your performances, because, if not, then you might not have as many games as you would like. Less games you play, then less chances to have a clean sheet. Petr Cech Read Quote
The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we’re seeing 100,000 victims per month. Nicholas Kristof Read Quote
London in the ’70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right. Ian Mcewan Read Quote
I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the standard of living there isn’t higher than it is in Germany. Second, Greece is paying a high price for European assistance. Wolfgang Schauble Read Quote
I’d love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, ‘How do you make your marriage work?’ I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He’s this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor. Sherri Shepherd Read Quote
Most actors that I work with are wonderful. Jodie Foster or Tom Hanks will make anything work. Robert Zemeckis Read Quote
I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood – I think that’s a really mythic moment to tell stories about. R. J. Cutler Read Quote
