I grew up with the movies of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and Judy Garland - these are the kinds of shows and the kinds of numbers in shows that I dreamed of being in and doing when I was a kid.
But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.
We should look for ways to expedite generic drug approvals, particularly for products that have a long history of being safe and effective.
Awards shows are being pushed to shed their genteel limousine liberalism and embrace the race-gender-sexual identity agenda in full.
Seattle very much benefited from this geography where it was a town nobody had really heard of in terms of a music scene. So we had that factor of being a new discovery.
The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.
People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed.
There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost.
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.
But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.
I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.
I'd always had the concern that being in commercials would affect my credibility when I was getting started as a TV and film actor.
Many people told me such convincing ghost stories that I felt that there really were ghosts, though I hadn't seen any. And though I still haven't seen a ghost, I feel that they are all around us; we are just not aware of them being there.
In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
Being on tour is a giggle.
When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart.
I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.
