I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.
I'm totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists most of the time.
There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us.
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
I was formed by 'The Forsyte Saga' marathon. There was something about seeing all those events telescoped that was unbelievably moving: that sense of time as something that can be tinkered with.
I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.
Personally I estimate about a third of my time is spent on author events, social media and traditional publicity.
Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.
There's definitely a role for online booksellers, but they can't host events, bring people together, and form a personal relationship in the way a bricks-and-mortar store and its staff can.
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.
When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
I can't sleep in the evenings. Most of the pictures people see of me are me going to work events: a Fendi dinner one night, a Prada dinner the next, and working all day.
As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected.
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.
