One of the things I have always enjoyed about Scientology is their proactive approach to journalists who are covering them.
One of the things I’ve learned from animation is that some guys are really good at writing, some guys are really good at design, some guys are really good at directing. It’s almost like working in a band – not everybody plays every instrument.
I think that one of the things that Democrats, in particular, need to recognize is that the way we have sometimes thought about issues as just affecting a particular group of people is not necessarily right.
One of the things I say to people is: Imagine if we succeeded.
One of the things I discovered about myself is I’m just really positive.
One of the things I admire about longer stories is the way writers can work with dead time and slower, more idle moments – not only can they feel expansive, they feel lived-in; the unhurried pacing often makes the endings even more resonant and surprising for me.
One of the things novels should do is shine a light on those parts of us that are common, the fibres that connect all of us. They should convey the sense that we’re all connected, coming from the same tree, sharing common roots.
One of the things that takes a bit of getting used to on an American series is having a different director, and often writer, every week.
To me, that’s one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that’s a completely different approach.
The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.
One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they’d seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.
We’re kidding on that. One of the things I insisted upon when we went into this project was that we are full partners, going fifty-fifty, both on the money and on the say of what’s going on with the books.
One of the things I try to do with my writing is try to evoke the spirit of the place. I think these things imprint on the landscape and the culture.
One of the things I’ve come to realize is that, like every new technology and like every disruption, broadband has downsides.
One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.
One of the interesting things about ‘Saw’ is that you don’t find out about things in sequential or linear order. One of the things that fans have liked a lot is, we don’t forget about details. They come back and reveal themselves as the story evolves.
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.
It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.
One of the things I like about the show is it redefines the idea of what it is to be a mother, which at its most basic level is to take care of a child. It doesn’t mean you have to look like the ladies in the Lysol commercials.
That’s one of the things I like about San Francisco. It’s not like anywhere else in the world.
Golf isn’t one of the things I’m best at. You’re in a situation where you’re vulnerable when you’re not a good player. But what I’ve found is that those are the times that you can build the most lasting relationships.
Martial arts is a life journey. One of the things my teacher taught me a long time ago was that everyone’s path to the mastery of a certain system is different. Some people’s path is a very direct route, where others might wind back and forth if you are injured or something.
One of the things I think about as I’ve evolved as an architect is, ‘Where do the poetic impulses come from?’
One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories.
One of the things I had to really work on is, when you’re the leader of an organization, people look at the expression on your face. Your mood has a lot to do with how people think the whole organization is doing.
One of the things that I miss about Canada is that even the strangers, you have an immediate rapport, there’s just an understanding that we’re all good people, let’s be nice to each other. And Kiwis have that. I find the Kiwis have that.
One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.
I’m analytical as an actor, and one of the things Quentin did was free me from that.
I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.
One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.
One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It’s brutal. And there’s a trophy.
As we think about the future, one of the things we will do is to make sure PayPal becomes the central part of consumers’ lives, how we enable consumers to manage and move their money more efficiently, easily, and less expensively than some traditional ways.
One of the things that Java is good at is giving you this homogeneous view of a reality that’s usually very heterogeneous.
One of the things I learned very early on is you need to cast the kids for the characters you want them to play. They need to be who they are, right? If you want a loud, boisterous kid character, you need to find that kid.
I had an interest in health policy and a realization that, as an academic physician, one of the things you’re always looking to do is to have your clinical interests and your scholarly interests overlap and reinforce one another.
One of the things we’re really proud of is that every single task is different, even if there are similarities. You never know what’s coming up next.
You talk to any of the job creators, and they’ll tell you one of the things that concerns them the most is the debt. And so high levels of indebtedness are going to lead to high levels of taxation, which lead to high level of unemployment.
I think you are always influenced by your surroundings and where you grow up. Your environment is always one of the things that shape you, and the music scene in Iceland was a very important factor in shaping me.
One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can’t question.
One of the things I miss most about the U.K. is political TV, and I have one of those little gadgets, which means I can download British programmes illegally – that’s why it’s a guilty pleasure.
One of the things that concerns me is that so few people who go and get an education elsewhere… feel any real… pull for returning home.
You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we’re presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated – not nearly as black and white as we’re led to believe.
One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
One of the things I’ve always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it’s also about stillness and silence.
One of the things I love, and I’m a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
One of the things I’ve learned by working on the ‘Walking Dead’ and other TV shows is to be more tolerant of other people’s process.
One of the things that often frustrates me with cookbooks is that there are one or two recipes that are really good and the rest of them are not so great.
One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.
One of the things I’ve tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I’m able to broaden people’s expectations of what I’m allowed to do.
One of the things that’s important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
I think we all have a kind of dark side, and that’s what keeps life – and characters – interesting. That’s one of the things that I’m drawn to write about again and again, the secrets we keep and how they shape us.
Along with never having got round to writing down our constitution and having a monarch who legally owns all the swans, one of the things that makes the UK a bit of an outlier is our university admissions system.
One of the things that I was taught in Portland is ‘Never too high, never too low.’
