The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
The only way to keep a show alive is to stay loyal to your fans and not betray them creatively or ignore them when it comes to extra content. I'm on Twitter because I'm trying to answer their questions.
It's a nightmare of editing. That's what I do all day.
By engaging someone for five minutes, you can make them a lifelong fan.
Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively.
Fans can't ruin shows. Only creators can.
In a landscape where a 2. 8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect.
Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.
There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.
If you ant to feel deeply, you have to think deeply. Too often we separate the two. We assume that if we want to feel deeply, then we need to sit around and, well, feel. But emotion built on emotion is empty. True emotion- emotion that is reliable and does not lead us astray- is always a response to reality, to truth.
The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with believing in gravity. And so he started the Babson Institute in New Boston, New Hampshire, which then moved to Gloucester. Each year they have a competition of one thousand dollars for one thousand words of an essay on gravity. That's the way they do it.