I've been obsessed with the Kennedys since I was a child, and Bobby Kennedy is, hands down, my favorite among them.
When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.
Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He'd better have a bodyguard.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
I've tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
There's a lot of politics in television and a lot of in-fighting and all that sort of stuff, but in the end, we are purveyors of entertainment. Viewers are not really bogged down in who's doing what and who hates who and who's doing best in the ratings. They watch television to be entertained.
Because I'm no longer a pop star 24 hours a day, I'm no longer bogged down by the stupid stuff that used to cripple me. I don't bruise easily any more.
I certainly try to avoid getting bogged down in forensics. There is certainly a whole lot of other writers who know a lot more than me about it. I know enough about it to do a little bit of background on laboratory techniques and stuff. But it kind of bores me.
As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.
Society may shun bohemia, may put it down, may consider it useless and ineffective, but it is where everything cooks and boils and is created.
You boil down your influences to a soup, and it all informs you.
We usually overrecord. Then we boil it down to the cream of the cream.
Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each other, there shouldn't be boundaries or fundamentalism. But I think literature is more than that; these are political views which most of us hold anyway.
Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.
My dining and entertainment philosophy - I can boil it down to 'the three C's - I like my food like my fashion: casual, classic, and with a touch of couture.
There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.
To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.
To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.
Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
