Quotes About Connection

The nice thing about 'Miranda' especially is that the audience that we had was school kids right through to pensioners. It seems to be a show that people watch as a family, so it was the first job I've been involved in that certainly my oldest daughter and my middle daughter are big fans of, and proud that I'm in it, which is a nice feeling.

BBC One's 'Noughts and Crosses' feels like catching up with your oldest mates from home.

I've got a great relationship with my oldest grandson because we go to political meetings and lectures, which I love.

The first human I ever said 'I love you' to was my oldest son.

I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.

Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.

I don't know how many people really knew who I was before the Olympics and that's the fun thing of the Olympics - you get to know someone who captures your heart, hopefully.

Working with Kal Penn in 'Namesake' was funny at times. What we did was so real. We had fun on and off the sets, too.

Ashish Sharma and I are close friends and we share a very good bond on and off sets.

Whenever you have chemistry on-screen, then you have to be very attracted to the person.

If you have a good thing going behind the scenes, you'll have a good thing going on-screen.

In marriage, there's a lot of ignoring each other, which is hard to fake on-screen.

I think, more than my husband, my mother-in-law gets excited and proud and what not whenever she sees me on-screen.

I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.

Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.

Once you know the background of an individual, you can connect better with his or her music.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

It was not me failing that I was scared of. It was failing those people back home who believe in you. They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games.

My wife and I try to have a date night once a week. We schedule them all in advance.

Get your friends together, even if it's just once a week or twice a month, and make dinner together.

I tell people with children still in the house to go out once a week and talk about anything but the children. Otherwise, once you are an empty nester you might have nothing to talk about.

Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.