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Modern political speechwriting is certainly a skill, and one that requires experience and practice to master. ”
For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders. ”
The thing with 'The West Wing' is that the fantasy was legitimately better than the reality - these were smarter, better people than their real-life counterparts, working together at a better White House than the one we had. ”
I don't want to be totally repetitive and doing the same thing over and over again for the rest of my life. I don't want to do that at all. ”
I got to be around an England team at a World Cup in Brazil, and that was an amazing experience. ”
I can have the worst game of my life, come off the pitch, and my mum will tell me I was great! That's what mums do. ”
Being a husband and a dad are the two most important things in my life. ”
My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan. ”
Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life. ”
In the 123rd minute of the semifinal game at the Olympics against Canada, I scored the game-winning goal that brought us to the finals. You can't replicate those do-or-die moments in practice or a friendly game. ”