My childhood had its challenges, like everyone’s. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
I can be much more creative with my menus in the casino cities. In New York, there are certain things I can’t make. In Las Vegas, they’re much more receptive. Rabbit, some seafoods – they won’t necessarily do well in New York, but I’ll try them in Las Vegas, and they’ll be a success.
Certain things give you another perspective in life.
Sometimes when I talk, I sound like a feminist because I get really angry when I hear certain things. For instance, a lot of families don’t really educate their girls much while they educate their sons to the full extent. I think that’s not fair.
We’re gone for 280, almost 300 days a year. So 70 to 80 days I’m home every year. Being an artist, you just gotta be ready to miss certain things, like Halloween and all these kind of things that you used to be able to be free for. Birthdays, all this kind of stuff.
Teenage girls like certain things I wear – or certainly did when that whole boho thing happened.
There are certain things I would never write about – anything that’s too distasteful. I think that you can withhold information.
There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again.
In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we’re more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?
There are so many great things about this country, but certain things we can’t take over and over and over again.
You definitely have to think of the perception of things before you actually do certain things. It may not seem like it’s a big deal to you yourself, but there’s a bigger picture.
He who doesn’t lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
Anything can happen in life, but you have to be a man and sometimes say certain things.
I genuinely only want to work with people that I agree with on certain things. There were many sponsors I didn’t want to work with because I didn’t agree with their messages that they wanted to use me to convey.
There are certain things that I know I don’t want to do anymore. Playing out-and-out terrorists who terrorise people and don’t actually move the conversation on are not worth doing. So that’s probably another reason I don’t go back to America, because a lot of it is like that. It’s boring, dull, very lazy writing.
There are certain things you can talk to a partner about and it’s someone to lean on. But I refuse to get into a relationship just for the sake of comfort.
I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.
I don’t think it’s good to say that you won’t do certain things, but I don’t necessarily have the natural urge to write.
It’s like this – because I travel so much, I crave certain foods or certain things, like from certain places that I’ve been.
Certain things which were happening in the industry needed to be corrected or stopped. There were a lot of people who were taking undue advantage and exploiting young talents.
In so many ways, a lot of the drive I’ve had to do certain things has been because of this sense that I have both the opportunity and in some sense the obligation to ratify that my parents’ life had purpose.
A lot of people think I don’t like them just because I’m pretty quiet. But there are certain things people don’t necessarily need to know. There’s got to be some things for me.
Women are in a position now to voice their opinion… women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn’t have a daughter, I didn’t understand.
There are certain things that you can blast through a stereo. You can blast hip-hop. You can blast heavy metal. You can’t blast ‘All Things Considered.’
There are certain things you can’t coach, you’ve got to watch a guy do it.
I like certain things, I don’t like others, and I like what NBC has to offer. I can do sports and I can do entertainment, and whatever they offer I’m going to try at least once to figure out what I love and what I don’t.
I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don’t regret them at all, because I’ve learnt from them.
I think something that’s very relevant in real life and that they don’t portray enough on TV is that when you think ‘Christian,’ you think ‘goody two shoes’ – they have to look a certain way and do certain things – and it’s just not true.
I think sexuality, especially, is one of those fluid things where oftentimes we find who we are through certain things that happen in our lives.
I will never do ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!’ There are certain things you’ll do that you have some control over, but you should do things that leave your fate in the hands of others, too.
People always try to separate the good from the bad in Clinton and say that, if he had not done certain things, he would have been a great president. But you can’t do that. Those were his major characteristics.
Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.
You always look for certain things you can do better and what went wrong.
I am very clear about keeping my professional and personal lives separate. I don’t want to talk about certain things, and that’s the way I am.
There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.
I’m very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I’m worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.
I know there are certain things I may never achieve depending on whether I stay at the Ospreys or go.
What I had heard about TV is that it’s very rigid – that you have to hit your mark, look a certain way, do certain things, that there is no freedom artistically – and that’s my worst nightmare. I don’t work well in rigid environments.
There were certain things that I tried to do on ‘Karamchand.’ Initially, they were hated, but eventually everyone loved the characterization.
I am a very independent person, and I, you know, I maintain that independence, but, you know, certain things – I mean, it takes, you know, it’s just much easier for other people if other people can help you every now and again.
You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren’t true, but you never hear about the positive.
There’s certain things that you can do on cable that you can’t do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.
I feel like geek is about obsession. I feel like I geek out on certain things and that just means it’s a mad devotion or obsession to something.
There are certain things you can say off the ice, but I think it’s mostly on the ice. There are certain situations where you feel like the team may need a big play, something like that, where you feel like it’s your responsibility to step up and you do that, but I definitely do that more on the ice than off.
If I talk about my father’s funeral, as I did when I was promoting the last novel, ‘Being Dead,’ I’m not going to tell any lies, but there are certain things I’m not going to tell you, and I’m certainly not going to tell my grief.
Certain things just rub me the wrong way.
I think sometimes you can be around somebody and take in certain energy and read certain things and you don’t know why your neck is stiff. But if you can recognise the negativity, once you identify it and you know what you are dealing with you can make a point to counteract it with a different energy.
There are certain things that only me, my friends and family should know. It’s not everyone’s business.
Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.
Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice – a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn’t. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things.
But everyone gets burnt, don’t they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that’s what happened.
My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was… not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.
There are certain things I couldn’t write because they’re not intrinsic to my beliefs. For instance, I couldn’t write a hero or heroine who didn’t put children first.
The Reeves Nelson debacle, that hurt me. There are certain things regarding him that I couldn’t say then and still can’t. But I should have pulled the plug on him after his sophomore year. We tried to make it work, but we couldn’t make it happen.
