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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.

You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.

It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.

I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.

In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.