I used to love to draw things that made me laugh or made friends laugh. When I was 13 or 14, I started thinking, This is what I like to do more than anything else.
In food, issues that surround purchasing and that whole realm have a very political component and they branch into stories that can be really compelling. Just being on the farm, interacting with all these people in the industry, leads to personal narratives that can be used to make a larger point.
It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.
As kids we used to laughWho knew that life would move this fast? Who knew I'd have to look at you through a glass? And look, tell me you ain't did it, you ain't did it And if you did, then that's family business.
I come from a very, very Catholic family. We used to pray the rosary every day after dinner.
They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.
I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.
My plan is to shock people with what I can do, because I've got a few sides to me that I've never used on screen.
I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.
I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director you studied with Stella Adler all the sudden they'd let you in the door.
I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry. . . every reader making out the detail according to his own particular imagination. . . but a painter, when he represents Eve on canvas, is obliged to give a determined form, and his own idea of beauty distinctly expressed.
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
You used to have to make a choice. Is it a serialized television show, or is it a stand-alone or procedural? We were wildly influenced by The X-Files. Even when we created Fringe, it was the same thing. It's the gold standard of all gold standards, in genre television, and it was so wonderful because you felt so much for those characters.
Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb.
I always knew I had to be 100 percent in charge, even when I was a middle manager. I used to say to my boss, "Just give me enough rope and then fire me. "
I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry.
I used to put the vocals on top and piece it together. Now I start with the vocals and the string parts I write; the drums are kind of an afterthought. And who knows, maybe that will get boring, but right now that's the most interesting way for me.
I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.