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Denton Cooley
Pioneer of Heart Transplants
I have visited many operating rooms around the country, and seen many really celebrated surgeons in the operating room. The ones that I admire the most are those who maintain a sort of even pattern of behavior, who treat their assistants and nurses well, and don't have flights of temperament or anger, and that sort of thing. To me, it just reflects their insecurity. I just don't believe that that's the way -- the pattern -- that I want to follow. I have five junior surgeons who are my associates, and none of them are temperamental. I selected them all because I liked their behavior in the operating room. In another institution, right here in our medical center, the surgeons are highly temperamental, and there are all sorts of histrionics going on in the operating room. You don't see that at the Texas Heart Institute.
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Denton Cooley
Pioneer of Heart Transplants
I don't lead by force, I lead by example. And if I can, set a good example. If I can set an example to my staff and my group, by being punctual, I come to work every morning, walk onto the hospital floor within two or three minutes of the same time every day, and they can depend upon it. I deplore these doctors who would show up, you know, an hour, a half hour late, because they were doing something else, or so on. If I say I'm going to be there, I am there every morning. And I am going to be there until I get my work done at night.
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Francis Ford Coppola
Filmmaker, Producer and Screenwriter
I wrote the script of Patton. And the script was very controversial when I wrote it, because they thought it was so stylized. It was supposed to be like, sort of, you know, The Longest Day. And my script of Patton was -- I was sort of interested in the reincarnation. And I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I wasn't fired, but I was fired, meaning that when the script was done, they said, "Okay, thank you very much," and they went and hired another writer and that script was forgotten. And I remember very vividly this long, kind of being raked over the coals for this opening scene. My point is that what I've learned is that the stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered really the good work.
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Sheryl Crow
Award-Winning Singer and Songwriter
I made a record before the Tuesday Night Music Club record, and it was interesting, because the person that got me signed was a very powerful producer, and he was the producer on the record. And we just didn't have a vision that really melded. He loved the demos. I felt like I wanted to rock a little bit harder. So it was a bit of a predicament. What I wound up with was something I didn't feel like represented me, and luckily the record label allowed me to not put it out and make a new record.
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Sheryl Crow
Award-Winning Singer and Songwriter
I never thought about it as requiring guts to speak out about what I was feeling at the time. I think there were two things I was really amazed by, one of which was that we were buying into this idea that we were going into Iraq for any other reason but greed and oil. But the other thing that really made an impact on me, as well as dismayed me, was the fact that people weren't speaking out about it. People weren't demanding better. I'm seeing a big shift now, but at the time, it just seemed obvious and necessary.
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