You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.
I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends laugh.
Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything.
To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.
Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.
What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.
There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.
My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.
Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.
That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.
I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.
I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.
I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.
I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.
The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.
There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
I feel like if I ever got into some sort of rumble on the street, I will actually be able to defend myself.
He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)
I always think my face is quite nondescript - it sort of fits in to any period. It's not really distinct enough for you to remember me from something.
With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?
