We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.
Making food is a wonderful way to spend a Friday night.
I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.
In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.
The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.
Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
I can walk through the front door of any factory and out the back and tell you if it's making money or not. I can just tell by the way it's being run and by the spirit of the workers.
It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way.
England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
I've been really frugal with money since way back, so I can't buy something if it's too expensive. I'm not that brave.
Becoming a writer wasn't a choice (there would have been far more worthwhile things to do); it was the best, most fruitful way of being a bit ill.
It's possible to get through life without a religious structure, but I don't think that's a very fruitful way to live.
Everything I dared dream of has come to fruition. Which is not to say that I don't grumble with the best of them, but the wobbles have been way outweighed by the wonders.
Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
A quick shallow fry is a great way to transform leftovers, and no more so than in the case of risotto.
I have learnt the hard way that ignoring a small fry can be many times harmful.
Can we achieve 140 mpg fuel economy? You bet. Just get the bureaucrats out of the way, and Yankee ingenuity will do the rest.
'The Fugitive Kind,' 'Rope,' 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' - I watched all these as a way of reminding myself that you can do a movie based on a play. You can do a movie that stays in one place for a long stretch.
To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.
