The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

I think political correctness is a moving line.

Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all ‘bottom line’ editors; everything depends on the money.

I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.

You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

On a daily basis, you’re working with Steve Carell; you’re not working with Ricky Gervais. You try a line, and you can’t be writing for David Brent. You have to be writing for Michael Scott...

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you’re just way out of line.

During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national...

I can’t do a one-camera show. I don’t know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.

The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge...

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

The thing about a pick-up line is, even if it works, then what? I just figure you unapologetically be yourself, and if it works, cool.

My parents weren’t at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

For those people who don’t know what Whiteboy clothing is, it is not a white-supremacy thing. It is a great clothing line that just says, ‘Have fun.’

In Bollywood, people struggle because there is a new person joining every week, who joins an assembly line of people who are very replaceable. But if you are unique, you don’t have to struggle that...

You can’t always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager’s got some sphere of autonomy. Don’t...

I’m on the front line and I am a rapper.

My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank’s goal variables – output, employment, and inflation.

As I’ve written before, China’s ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn’t where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than...

Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I can’t believe that people wouldn’t line up for that possibility.

If I was on a third or fourth line I would probably be in the NHL, because you don’t have to produce every night.

With thrillers, there’s such a fine line between what’s good and what’s cheesy and corny.

It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.

The bottom line is I’m writing to save the dead. I’m writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.

In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of lines using odd numbers of syllables.

I don’t think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a signing, and my line was all military guys, young girls, housewives and guys in wheelchairs....

But there’s a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

I want to do a make-up line for men.

I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my...

I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.

There aren’t many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.