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At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.

Because her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us.

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.

Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here.

It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.

Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.

The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.

Know when to hold 'um, know when to fold 'um and know when to walk away from cameramen.

Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

Discipline is not a nasty word.

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked. That said, in film school I acted in probably 6,000 student films because no other filmmakers knew anyone who wanted to act. It was all a big beautiful snake eating its tail, progressing along the way.

I look a little like Beaker. I think I'm a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It's Muppety hair.

Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today.

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

I never imagined I would have one fan, and there seems to be a few. I just couldn't be happier that people seem to like what I'm doing and seem to respond to it. If they weren't there, I don't know what I'd be doing right now.

I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.

I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.

There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.

Collecting is my passion.