I think audiences are really thirsty for real shows about real people in any circumstances.

A big part of directing is being strong in certain circumstances and taking the gamble and hope you don't get fired.

I like to take fictitious characters and circumstances and wedge them into a real world.

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.

Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

There is a capacity for violence we all harbour, and under certain circumstances, it comes out.

What surprised me most about the Donner tragedy was that, given the terrible circumstances, how anyone survived at all.

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

Test cricket is about respecting the opposition, the conditions and the circumstances.

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.

I thought it was a joke at first, but the president did, in fact, authorize an autopen to sign the Patriot Act extension into law. Consider the dangerous precedent this sets. Any number of circumstances could arise in the future where the public could question whether or not the president authorized the use of an autopen.