I liked writing, and I loved movies, obsessively loved movies, but I had never made the leap of thinking I would actually come out here and write stuff.

If you can learn to be incredibly passionate about your work without fighting for it just because it's yours, that's a huge thing.

There are a huge amount of people who sell a TV pilot, every year, but most of them never get produced. It's very easy to make a living and never get anything produced.

You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it.

Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system.

The State trained us to make other people's terrible jokes work, which is the other part of the game when you're here.

When somebody would come in with a sketch that was not so good, you figured out in a room how to make that sketch work.

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.

Probably your first agent is going to be some guy who also handles dog acts.

Schedule time for focused effort.

May our gratitude find expression in our prayers and our service for others, and in our commitment to live wholly for Christ.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.

The universe is contained within us, and what we experience externally is only a reflection.

After quitting gymnastics in 2000, I was looking for that next thing where I could defy gravity. I was looking for something that had the flipping and the twisting and allowed me to be acrobatic.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.' 'Girls don't shave', Arya said. 'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?

A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.

I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort.