Throughout his life, Dickens cared passionately about orphans.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.
I was fair-skinned in a country that's about the outdoors.
We are talking about institutionalizing a program on solar development that will outlast the Obama administration.
I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each scene is supposed to accomplish.
I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.
The way we think about a presidential portrait is one that is imbued with dignity from the outset.
It's OK to be outspoken about your faith.
I would overhear these conversations of people who show purebred dogs. They spoke about them as if they were their children.
It took about 10 years' time for Shopify to be an overnight success.
I have ideas. I hear voices. Words accumulate. It's still an overriding impulse. And I'm self-employed, which means I have to be sensible and motivated about paying the bills.
I'm trying not to overwork the muscles because I'm thinking about accomplishing this great feat.
Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care.
For me, rehearsal is only about blocking and pacing; it's not about performance.
I get ideas about what's essential when packing my suitcase.
I live in California, so I do stand-up paddle board, which is a killer workout. I also run, about four miles every three days.
Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.
Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations.
I have no illusions about our elected politicians. Pakistani democracy is anything but perfect.
