As I was researching, I was struck by how similar the Boxers were to Joan of Arc. Joan was BASICALLY a FRENCH Boxer. She was a poor teenager who wanted to do something about the FOREIGN aggressors INVADING her HOMELAND.

I THINK our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive CHARACTER MUST have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative SUCCESS in COUNTRY churches.

I was always SORT of mystified and EXCITED about the WORLD of COUNTRY music. SOMETHING about it struck me as enchanted.

IVF BECAME the only WAY for us to have children after I was treated for Hodgkin's lymphoma 10 years ago with fertility-destroying chemotherapy. And while the cancer treatment was predictably punishing for me, I was struck by the anguish of the IVF PROCESS and in particularly the failed cycle.

The PRESIDENT so FAR has struck me as a man who is TRYING hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my EFFORTS in these directions.

That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she FELT was WORTHY trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to THINK like a LEADER.

I have never experienced ANYTHING LIKE walking out onto the stage of an oversold VENUE and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of US.

I can't ever remember being struck by lightning when MAKING a big decision. It's always about taking in more and more data points and making tack adjustments as you FIGURE it out. I call customers, suppliers, INDUSTRY analysts and try to GET as MUCH information as possible.

When I was 12, my brother and I moved back to Honolulu to LIVE with our mother. Hawaii felt like ANOTHER UNIVERSE, and reflecting on it, I am struck by how much more OPEN and accepting it was.

Before 'Moonrise,' I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD be in a MOVIE where I would be struck by LIGHTNING.

It always struck me as pretty COOL that people who changed the world often KNEW each other. After reading them separately, hearing that DAVID Hume and ADAM Smith were friends made SENSE.

What's GOING on in the game TODAY... it's data vs. art - that's what it comes down to for me. Art being the human HEARTBEAT, data being numbers, the math, etc. I believe there's a BALANCE to be struck right there.

I honestly thought that SINCE I didn't associate myself with any PEOPLE or groups who were outwardly racist, and I didn't act in a WAY that struck me as racist, that this meant that I myself was not a racist, and that RACISM wasn't a HUGE issue.

I was SHOT down by a FIFTH BALL, which struck me squarely in the FACE, and PASSED out.

But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of HEART. I knew the STORY had to be told because what HAPPENED at 9/11 is a DIRECT result of what the economic hit men are doing.