I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did which was work in an office.
Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.
It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30 why shouldn't 70 be the new 65? The last time Washington politicians tinkered ever so gingerly with the government-sanctioned retirement age Ronald Reagan was in office and Generation X-ers were all in diapers.
The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.
What I remember most about junior homecoming was my date getting sick afterwards. That kinda sucked. Then senior year someone got gum in her hair when we were dancing. She had to get one of the chaperones to take her to the office and cut up her hair. I felt really bad for her but it worked out fine.
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is I think the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.