Quotes About Collaboration

I do paint, and I wanted to actually be a painter. Sometimes I'll whip out paints. It's tough to find the motivation, but it's also a solitary, lonely occupation. What I like about acting is that it is such a collaborative thing.

When I left 'Being Human,' that was painful because the show was going on without me. But with 'Him & Her,' we finished on such a high together that if it is the end, it couldn't have stopped at a better time. But I hope with 'Him & Her' that we'll get another crack of the whip: that the writer might change his mind and write some more.

I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years.

If technology is designed mostly by white males, who make up roughly half our population, we're missing out on the innovation, solutions, and creativity that a broader pool of talent can bring to the table.

We met Ferg at one of our shows in L.A. She gave us her number. For the song 'Shut Up' on Elephunk, we needed a vocalist. Someone said 'yo, remember that white girl - we should get her in the studio.' Since then, we've become friends. She's one of the guys now, she isn't just a girl.

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.

After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to be a collective effort of everybody in the country.

I have personal experience dancing with someone who is a Republican and someone who worked for the White House.

Amazing how the White House, celebrities and gun control groups happen to repeatedly push for new initiatives in an organized fashion at the same time.

I really want to be governor when I have a partner in the White House.

I have known several presidents quite well, including my husband, and I worked closely with President George W. Bush and the White House then after 9/11, and I served with President Obama. I disagree with all three of those presidents on certain things.

We are a Republic with different branches of government, and so the Senate and the House are going to be full partners in working with the White House.

Individually, we've taken the world on and won; together, we must take on the challenge of creating a new, peaceful, humane and competitive nation and prevail.

We have to build further on the collaboration with business and labor to restore confidence and prevent an investment downgrade.

We know that police alone can't prevent violence. Support of political parties is imperative to maintain peace.

Looking forward, I am determined to do everything possible to bring Democrats, Republicans and independents together to work on keeping our kids safe and preventing gun violence.

Both the guys in Nightwish and I have experiences with previous band breakups and all emotions that come with it. It's almost like dating.

Working with newbies has its own advantages as they're open to ideas and the audience can see the actresses as themselves, devoid of any pre-conceived image from their previous films.

I have, at times, not been totally on the same page as some of my previous partners in crime.

To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.

When you build relationships with entrepreneurs, they're not trying to optimize on price.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

I pride myself on working with great musicians.

There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.