We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.
I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.
Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on.
Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as 'John Huston's daughter' that I couldn't think of myself as anyone else.
I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.
My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.
There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.
My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.
My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
My dad was a presence, of course, but he worked nights a lot, and I would only see him one day a week.
One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.
Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.
In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.
Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.
Obviously I'm very disappointed. I trained very hard this summer and felt in a good shape to play the U.S. Open.
While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.
