Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.
As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.
The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.
People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.
We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.
the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.
Just because you've been successful and just because you've disrupted an environment, doesn't mean you're a role model or that you actually have anything to teach anybody. There's an awful lot of luck and accident in the world, and maybe you were just on the receiving end of that.
I am the good girl and I always play the good girl. It's nice to do that.
I actually think the band doesn't need the television show. And I actually think the television show holds it back. No one at radio wants to play a band that's on a television show.
It's easy to dream about it. . . Much harder to execute it. . . . Work!
I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.