“It's pretty easy to make a film in China. A few years ago I just walked into the office and let them know I wanted to make a movie called 'Red Cliff' and they were so excited. They said, 'Let's do it!' It's that simple.” KnowsYearsSaidWantedFilmEasySimpleOfficeRedYears AgoExcitedChinaThey SaidCliffs Author:John Woo
“I've been to Washington many times over the years for stories, and it always seems remarkably the same. More the same than the rest of the country. It's almost like they dress the same as they did 20 years ago. The same old guys are sitting outside the same dirty, dingy secret offices in the Capitol that you're not allowed to go in.” YearsCountryStoriesSeemsGuySecretOfficeSittingYears AgoDressesDirtyCapitolOld Guys Author:Dave Barry
“I think most presidents are amazed at the overwhelming responsibility they have when they enter office and the tremendous amount of work there is. See, a modern president has far more responsibility than a president years ago. And if I were rewriting the Constitution, I would suggest a president be more like a monarch and then have a prime minister under him.” IfsThinkingYearsPresidentResponsibilityModernAmountOfficeYears AgoConstitutionMinistersPrimeOverwhelmingAmazedPrime MinisterMonarchsRewriting Author:Billy Graham
“When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on, how I would long for the lunch hour, when I would be able to escape the torture of the office and stroll over to the churchyard and into the comforting wooden embrace of one of its benches.” YearsLongWould BeAbleJobsHoursMorningOfficeYears AgoEmbraceStuckHatedTortureLunchComfortingBenchesTedious Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“One day about 10 years ago the door to my office opened and who walked in but Bill Gates.... Seemed like a nice guy and has done more with his money than most billionaires. But that's as far as I want to go being kind to Bill Gates.” WantYearsKindDoneGuyNiceDoorsOne DayOfficeYears AgoBillsGatesBe KindBillionaireNice Guy Author:Andy Rooney
“Republicans also have to start to look at talent recruitment. Eight years ago Barack Obama was a no-name state senator. So I think we need to look outside the Beltway and start to look at a younger, more diverse pool of people and tap them to run for office instead of continuously tapping the same type of self-funder individual that Republicans seem to go after every time.” PeopleThinkingNeedsYearsLooksSelfStatesSeemsRunningNamesIndividualTalentTypeRepublicanOfficeYears AgoEightBarackPoolDiverseSenatorsTappingRecruitment Author:Andrea Tantaros
“In terms of my Indianness, I try not to rely on it nor deny it. When it comes up organically in my writing, we can address it. About five years ago, we wrote this episode of 'The Office,' called 'Diwali,' which seemed like an organic way of using it.” WayWritingTryingYearsTermFiveOfficeYears AgoCome UpDenyRelyFive YearsAddressesEpisodes Author:Mindy Kaling
“It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.” WritingYearsDifferentCharacterWould BeFunnyUsedPerfectTvsOfficeFemaleYears AgoMalesEightUsed To BeOffendedFlawedPortrayal Author:Mindy Kaling
“Ten years ago if you would have told me that Mrs. Clinton would be the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, I'd have never believed you. Her only qualifications for office are that she's Mr. Clinton's partner. And what does that mean? The two of them stand for dishonesty and corruption.” IfsYearsMeanDoeTwoWould BeTenOfficeYears AgoDemocraticClintonCorruptionPartnersDishonestyQualificationsNominations Author:Jackie Mason
“Even a hundred and fifty years ago, football was popular because it provided a manly spectacle that lots of men needed, after the industrial revolution. We went from a culture that lived out doors and expanded the frontier and fought the Indians to a bunch of guys in offices. So football provided this jolt, a kind of exalted cult of masculinity. And it still does that. Perhaps even more so today.” MenYearsKindDoeStillsTodayGuyCultureDoorsFootballRevolutionNeededOfficeHundredYears AgoBunchFiftyCultMasculinityFrontiersExaltedManlyIndustrial Revolution Author:Steve Almond
“What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?” MenYearsDoeStoriesLastsHouseLeadershipWhiteResponsibilityForeverFourMissingOfficeYears AgoBlameAdministrationBarackWhite HouseFour YearsGetting OldShifting Author:Paul Ryan
“There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.” YearsReasonWholeHateHouseFeetPoetOfficeYears AgoShootingOddReason WhyThirtyTortureExecutionDictatorProvokingTruckElusiveGloomyClumsyGleamCorridorsProsecutorSquadOrdealsGallantShufflingRuffian Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time.” WorldYearsLongSometimesKidsWantedMotherMillionsOfficeLong TimeDaughterYears AgoAmanda Author:Phil Mickelson