I always kind of think I don't have a style, just whatever seems to be appropriate for the story.
I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
Acting and the navy seem to balance each other out - I've not surrendered over to the complete process of the navy, nor have I surrendered to the ego-driven process of acting.
Something about not waiting for the laugh of a laugh track allows you to take lines that otherwise might be seen as just direct jokes, and make them seem realistic.
For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is in trouble.
The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage.
If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.
It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to flourish economically, completely aligned with the broader open source community.
I wanted to write in film or something like that. I thought acting was an embarrassing thing to say you wanted to do, especially when you're young. It seemed really uncool.
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.
After the 'Last Waltz' concert, it just seemed very healthy to me to put making a record as far out of my mind as I possibly could.
I thought of a lot of people from the same era when I was making a lot of records that had continued making a lot of records. A lot of it didn't seem terribly inspired.
In college, my friend Melanie and I used to have weekly Jimmy Stewart viewings, and 'Harvey' seemed to make its way into the rotation an inordinate amount of times.
My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.
