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

I'll be writing essays long after I've stopped writing fiction. There is this unusually broad range in the non-fiction, but if you look at what I'm capable of as a novelist, I'm more limited.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One.

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

We're involved in racing because there's that element of competition. But there's that desire to push yourself beyond the natural comfort zone and the boundaries that are preset if you like, and to be better than the rest.

As a general rule of thumb, Democrats do better in national elections when the year's defining issue is economic fairness, and Republicans do better when the defining issue is national security.

My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.

I'm astonished by my success.

When I got really sick and needed a stem cell transplant, I was fortunate to have a twin sister as the donor.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I'm not really calculated enough or trained enough as a musician or songwriter to create a style in order to please people. Ultimately, I just have to do what I like to do.

In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.

My first playpen was a cardboard box.

With breast cancer, it's all about detection. You have to educate young women and encourage them to do everything they have to do.

The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.

A bad attitude can literally block love blessings and destiny from finding you.

Most actors and actresses are performative as people.

What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

I have my granddad's record collection, which I treasure, and my father's - Rolling Stones to Sidney Bechet.

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.