In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.
It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.
The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.
I have a really good relationship with Focus Features; we had a wonderful time working together on 'Sin Nombre.'
I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
The 'Soul Train' legacy and brand are of the utmost importance to me and to 'Soul Train's' millions of fans. After years of offers, I feel the time is now finally right to pass the torch.
I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?
I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.
You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.
I'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very methodical. But it is worth it, and it isn't particularly expensive.
Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.
I was formed by 'The Forsyte Saga' marathon. There was something about seeing all those events telescoped that was unbelievably moving: that sense of time as something that can be tinkered with.
I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn't I?
My usual route is, I do a play at South Coast Rep, then there's time between and I revise it, and then I take it to New York.
The 20s are like the stem cell of human development: the pluripotent moment when any of several outcomes is possible. Decisions and actions during this time have lasting ramifications.
Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.
Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
