Politics is a highly tribal business.

Politics is show business for ugly people.

I honestly believe that there's an element in this country in our politics that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga the myths.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

For capitalism war and peace are business and nothing but business.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

In this day and age you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.

You know I lose patience really easily I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.

Unfortunately overall movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business which can get really ugly.

I've never written a movie I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on and that feels like enough of a job for me.

The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.

I hadn't made a big-budget film and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love everyone gets up in the morning they have three meals a day and they go about their business.

The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids business and cooking!

It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning have a sandwich in the afternoon go to bed at night. You know nothing really different.

I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles my business is run out of London and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype in my dressing gown speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot my team travel a lot but I wouldn't have it any other way.

When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.

So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers or listen to what's on the news and you know how the world's going to change.

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking and worrying and sweating for them.

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses I'll continue to subsidize my own work.