I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out.
If you want a show to succeed, you're going to have to have a certain amount of people watch who are non-black and non-Latino. If you can't cross over, you don't belong on TV. That's not just me saying it. That's just the way it is.
Stressing and obsessing over your vision blocks it.
For me, its better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.
The greatest victory you can win is over your own mind.
Oh yes, we're going to brawl, baby. Over you. Again.
I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team.
When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.
When you give up the hope that some advisor, some system, some source of inside tips is going to give you a shortcut to wealth, you'll finally begin to gain control over your financial future.
You get over your first love by falling in love with something new.
In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?
If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you.
he card companies will often, as a courtesy, honor that credit card, but hit you with a penalty. And you keep swiping your card for $3 at Starbucks for your latté, and you're getting hit with a $25 penalty because it's over your credit limit.
You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.
Newtonian physics is over. You don't act on the world to change the world. You realize the world is a projection of your inner self. If you change, the world changes.
As for breaking up, once the relationship is over, you never really know what went wrong; you just feel nauseous whenever the subject comes to mind. After a plane crash there's the black box that tells the FAA what caused the crack-up. Too bad there's no black box of relationships.
There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave
Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.
I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.