I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.
You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.
Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance.
My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.
To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.
I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.
'Eternal inflation,' as it's called - the endless generation of new universes - may be a hyper-cosmic imperative. It seems that it must happen.
Now I understand what was happening. I don't particularly gain water; I don't have water retention.
I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.
Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
I was driving around the country when I was 19 and happened to run out of cash in Seattle, so I settled here.
I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherman. But I'll take whatever happens.
I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that the energy is very vibrant. Everywhere you look there is something happening.
Even when I'm sitting up in this glass castle, I still got my street soldiers telling me what's happening.
Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
It's not so much that I ever declared: 'I will never have children.' I just never found the right man to settle down with, so it didn't happen.
What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.
I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.