Pastoral Resources

I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.

I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.

I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.

The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.

This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don't sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a home and stay there and make records and do our thing and not have to look over our shoulder.

The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors.

We should remember the campaign advertising will be only a smaller portion of the President's total exposure.

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.

No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.

Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.