Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.
I'm out there talking to everyone. My days are filled with breakfast, lunches, dinner and drinks.
On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner.
As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work.
That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can feel very removed.
If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled
Look, I have a completely normal relationship with Sarri. I don't go out for dinner with him. I don't go round to his house. Our work is very professional: he speaks and explains what he wants me to do, and I try to implement what he wants on the pitch.
In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
