But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.
I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.
You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.
Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance.
My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.
When something happens to you, suffering doesn't begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing - as something that is wrong.
To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.
I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.
'Eternal inflation,' as it's called - the endless generation of new universes - may be a hyper-cosmic imperative. It seems that it must happen.
Now I understand what was happening. I don't particularly gain water; I don't have water retention.
I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.
It's a pretty heavy thing that happens to me when I'm at competitions. I get so sucked in, I can't really turn it off.
Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.
What I thought at the moment was the worst thing that could happen was absolutely the biggest gift I've received.
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.
I was driving around the country when I was 19 and happened to run out of cash in Seattle, so I settled here.
I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherman. But I'll take whatever happens.
I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that the energy is very vibrant. Everywhere you look there is something happening.
Even when I'm sitting up in this glass castle, I still got my street soldiers telling me what's happening.
