As J.R. I could get away with anything – bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of...

Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.

I didn’t want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with...

In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.

In a way, Strandbeests have turned into migration animals, and the step counter gives them an idea of where they are. While counting their steps, they know more or less where they are between Kijkduin...

After I did ‘Mr. Show,’ I was basically just a writer for a while. I was really young, and I kinda was like, ,wow, I’m 27 and I was already on this iconic show, and...

The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!

Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?

Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.

Anyone I know who’s almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.

A while ago, I did a television adaptation of ‘Bleak House,’ and the character I played, as far as I was concerned, had no redeeming features whatsoever. I wasn’t about to try to find any;...

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, ‘This wasn’t supposed to happen! Why...

During the election campaign of 2000, it was generally thought that then-governor Bush didn’t know much about foreign policy or national security affairs, and that Colin Powell would lead on that front, while the president’s...

I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, ‘Well, I really want to try acting while I’m young, and I don’t ever...

My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn’t make...

My mum taught me a lot about fashion in terms of knowing what looks good on you and developing my own sense of style. Even when we were shooting the Sunglass Hut campaign, we went...

I’m aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I’m trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It’s just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.

I love the passion you go through while you’re creating.

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

I didn’t have the money to put myself through drama school, so I thought – naively – that if I wrote a play and put it on at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, agents would see...

FDR’s justices were allies while he was alive, but after he died, they developed four totally different theories of what the Constitution is, two of which are considered conservative and two of which are considered...

George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class – Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we’re at it, his father, George H. W. ‘Poppy’ Bush, was...

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

I think was overly empathetic for a while in my life.

The lifelong health problems of John F. Kennedy constitute one of the best-kept secrets of recent U.S. history – no surprise, because if the extent of those problems had been revealed while he was alive,...

There was a time when I couldn’t watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.

Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek.

It’s morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can’t provide for their families.

We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to...

While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we’d go out every other term to work in industry and have that...

While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of United States power or influence against any government or group...

I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main...

I’m trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.

I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.

I’ll always love movies. But there’s something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I’m going to keep playing.

I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.

I was on vacation with my family when I got the scripts for ‘Wanderlust’ and I was trying to work on the audition while I was on vacation. I remember a big gust of wind...

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you’re not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.

For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn’t get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that...

Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as ‘the show.’

I experimented with different roles, but they didn’t work, despite being fantastic films like ‘Naa Autograph,’ ‘Sambo Siva Sambo,’ ‘Neninthe’… etc. I was very satisfied doing those roles. Had those films worked for me, I...

I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A Fair Tax would replace all federal taxes on personal and corporate income with a single national...

While I was in jail, they handcuffed me and took me to a backroom, where a detective from the FBI and a Secret Service agent were, and they interrogated me for about three or four...

To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on...

Shikun & Binui, our infrastructure and real estate company, implements sustainability by building their projects 100% sustainable while educating their employees worldwide.

I kind of entered a flow state. I’ve been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

I was afraid to express myself for a while.

I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for ‘Archie’ to read for a boy… I’ve had...