There's a tendency for people who believe passionately in something to be so convinced of their rightness that if they just repeat themselves a lot at the person, that will convince them. And that hasn't worked on things like immigration or trade deals.
I had my appendix out when I was 11, and that was the last time I was in a hospital. That was a one-night deal. So I've spent basically one night in a hospital.
I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail.
Why Family Therapy. . . because it deals with family pain.
Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral dilemma that makes the reader wonder what he or she would do in the protagonist's place.
One can only know as much as one has lived to know, though it is certainly possible to learn a great deal less than this.
Obamacare premiums are of no concern to people in the establishment. Same thing with illegal immigration, same thing with trade deals.
Creativity is no big deal.
I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.
Sooner or later you end up making deals with women. It's an injustice, really.
I'm really fortunate because, in my career, I haven't had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I'm not.
If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.
For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
I actually like football a great deal.
We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.
It is true that, with TV, a writer gets a great deal more respect.
My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.
When one trusts this inner universal power, it automatically draws forth the trust of the people one deals with.
I made money. I wanted to give it back to Africa but I wanted to give it back in a meaningful way. So I really want to do something which deals with the root of the problem of hunger, of disease, of ills we have in our society.