Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.
All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.
Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
In Positano, I like the San Pietro Hotel, which is run by a friend whose family has owned the hotel for more than 100 years.
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.
Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.
I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.
My mum's family are from Blaenau Ffestiniog, the slate town. My grandfather was Elis Humphreys Roberts, so that's quite Welsh isn't it?
My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.
Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun.
I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
America is one of the biggest businesses in the world, and the people who run it can't balance their budget. We need business people in there and lobbyists out of there.
Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.
It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction.
Like leaders in many walks of life, my business has been to serve with, and for, others.
Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to big companies.
