You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.
There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.
But I didn't even see God in the show as being very spiritual, I see him or her, it, as being something that is just relevant and very important in her life.
The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.
But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.
I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.
I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.
People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough.
Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.