Pastoral Resources

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.

A lot of show business, as you know, is about all the contacts you make and who you know.

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.

I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business.

Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me.

My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.

I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.

The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.