Doug Cottrell's Copious Projects is a holder for 5 sub-companies. Amiable Products, Heart's Desire Enterprises, Wildfire Productions, Lyon Legal Services.

In real life, I am alarmingly boring.

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

I was a hyperactive kid, and it took awhile for me to find the right teacher. My master was a Shaolin kung fu teacher, but he also taught tai chi, Chinese medicine, brush painting - he was adept at all facets of Chinese culture.

When Richard Nixon came to Beijing in the winter of 1972, China was still in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, so it had a limited array of entertainment to provide.

The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.

Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously and the cellular fabric would collapse.

Victory is paid for in sweat, courage and preparation.

I worked for a lot of directors.

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

I've definitely met nightmare Hollywood types who think they're getting twenty million dollars a picture when they're not. But they act like it. And they just insult everybody.

When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'

I think Matt Yglesias is wrong to declare that the world of 'This Town' is dying, unless he thinks publicly financed elections, strict lobbying bans and Scandinavian-style wealth distribution are imminent.

Obama and his Democrat allies in Congress have proven they will use bait-and-switch tactics to move more unvetted refugees into our communities. This will inevitably put our nation and our citizens at risk for future terrorist attacks.

The poetic image is not an echo of the past. On the contrary through the brilliance of any image the distant past resounds with echoes.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.

Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.

Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!

We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution.

One day you are drinking the wine and they next day you are picking the grapes.

'Credit' is another word for trustworthiness.

I confess to being a frustrated musician.

I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.

While tripping, it's either thrilling adventure or high pencil heels.

Silence is not an absence but a presence.