I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!
I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.
It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.
I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.
I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am.
One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question.
We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.
For me, its like go ahead and eat. Live your life. I mean, I've just seen so much death, you know, as of late, being in my 40s, of people getting sick or, you know, whatever, that I just feel like, you know what? You never know with life. Eat. Enjoy yourself. Just try to be healthy and, you know, and watch it.
Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.
Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.
There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.
The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.
Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.