You work to earn money. But in Japan, that idea has a bad image, and you're not supposed to say that.
It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.
Rather than diminishing the idea of 'truly needing' a relationship - and trying to deny it, shame it, or talk ourselves out of it - why not just celebrate it? It's exactly what the world needs.
I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.
The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.
True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.
We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.
I love to read and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have. I love to sing.
I do love the idea of being able to take an MP to court for lying. There are ways and means of taking an MP to court just now, but it is very difficult.
I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is.
I love going into a dive where they have no idea who I am or haven't heard my music and try to win them over.
I love the idea of sharing some of what we find in the research phase with a select community of people early on as a perk for their donating, and then gauging their feedback.
I like my ladies lady-ish, feminine so to speak. I love jeans and hoodies, but the idea of being an ultimate tomboy does slightly confuse me.
