Quotes About Collaboration

The notion people have about me is that I am always angry and irritated. Also, I report late to work and I am not serious about my job. But if all these things were true about me, people wouldn't be working with me.

Contrary to what certain sections of the media have been reporting, there are no differences between Swami Agnivesh, Kiran Bedi and me.

So for me, you can't control the media, you have to work with media to get your message out there and you just hope that there's enough good honest reporting and people in the media that can get that job done.

The message for the smart investor is to watch out. Do not get carried away with news reports and turn smart by pooling information with like-minded investors.

I try to spend a lot of time with people outside my direct reports. The view from the top is totally distorted. If you only spend time with your directs, you have no perspective on what's really going on.

I proudly represent Pakistan in India, and I hope that many more actors from there come and work here.

I believe the combination of Travelex and Apax will represent a powerful force.

People who truly represent an extreme on either side have a very difficult time getting bipartisan support for what they're doing.

TV writing - for me, at least - is half original voice and half an embodiment and a representation of the spirit of the actors you're writing for.

Because I produce a comedy festival and because I write and all of that stuff, I've seen the relationship that actors can create, in a bad way sometimes, with the rest of the people they work with. I just want to be a good representation of, 'Actors are great! They're not what some people might think they are.'

When it comes to representation and agent meetings, a lot of times actors go into the meeting with the idea that they need the agent to pick them - but it's a partnership.

'Compromise' isn't supposed to be a dirty word. It is, in fact, how representative democracy works.

When you're on the floor of the House of Representatives in the Democratic caucus, I like to say it feels like New Jersey. You have all different opinions, you have all different ideas.

Then we have a World Run, where representatives from all the charters meet.

I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.

Charter Cities has been approached in many different ways, by many people acting as individuals or as representatives of organizations.

As an actress, you're part of what the director is creating, and as a model, you're representing a designer's vision.

That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.

That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world.

I'm extremely proud I was born and raised in the Bay Area and loved representing Oakland. I started recording in the Bay Area and worked with a lot of different producers. But I always wanted to collaborate with different writers and get different perspectives.

I really enjoy representing my country and think the principles of what Fed Cup is about and the team environment is a great thing to be a part of.

Sport represents a union of diversity.

Most of the time when people work with an artist, they don't give them what they need for the future, they give them what their last album sounded like. So it's like, 'Oh, One Republic needs a song, why don't we send them 10 that sound like 'Apologize?'

There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we need to do is we need link all of these moderates together and to figure out a way by which this particular coalition can speak to important issues to marginalize the voice of the extremists.