The London Olympic Opening Ceremony was excellent. The mixture of old and new, of classic and contemporary was a beautiful reflection of Great Britain. Danny Boyle is a genius. Ludovico Einaudi Read Quote
I just want to make good music, and as long as I’m happy with it, the charting isn’t that important to me. Although, the best feeling is having a song you’re very happy with and also having it at Number One! Astrid S Read Quote
About every other week, I sit down with all of our new Zynga hires and I talk to them for about 90 minutes, have an open Q&A. There is no formal presentation. I talk about our values, where they came from and why they are so important, and I ask them to challenge those values. Mark Pincus Read Quote
I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over ‘The Onion’ or ‘Calvin and Hobbes.’ That was considered completely normal. Simon Rich Read Quote
Before ‘Whiplash,’ I’d had a string of failed scripts. I’d pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them. Damien Chazelle Read Quote
Truth be told, of course, what I enjoy most is reinventing myself and doing new projects where I work in new genres, or I get to find what the voice of a particular musical is. Alan Menken Read Quote
Before filming ‘The Crown,’ I couldn’t care less about the royal family. But now… I’m obsessed. Vanessa Kirby Read Quote
I did not start hunting until later in life. When I was a kid growing up in Pennsylvania, my dad worked at a steel mill, and we didn’t have the means to buy guns or take off and go hunting. But I loved being outdoors. I built tree stands and ground blinds in the woods and pretended that I was hunting. Jim Kelly Read Quote
I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Read Quote
