Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.
I've never had an exclusive relationship to a room where I write. I used to want one.
The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.
Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance.
No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship.
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.
Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence the fact that it remains such a popular choice for wedding photographs.
And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.
I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.
Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.
I'm so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows.
The coolest part about seeing a girl wear something comfortable is the smile that you can just feel coming through from inside her.
There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.
I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.
News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.
The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.
Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.
The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.
