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“I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.”
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“I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself. Take a musician like John Coltrane. He is a perfect musician, who can give expression to all the possibilities of his instrument. But he seems to have difficulty expressing original ideas on it. That is why he keeps looking for ideas in exotic places. At least I don't have that problem, because, like I say, I find my inspiration in myself.”
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“All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.”
Source : Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.92, Oxford University Press
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“You don't need a guidebook to see New Orleans - just a good pair of shoes.”
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“Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.”
Source : Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
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“Father! Can I box him? Please!”
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“Most of my close friends, growing up, were women - and even after I got married, I still maintained a lot of those friendships. But as they get married, and as I get older, I'm making a lot of the transition to the husbands.”
Source : "Married showrunner Andrew Gurland is the guy laughing at the funeral". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. September 10, 2015.
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“I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.”