I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.
If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes.
Most Sundays, with the exception of football Sundays, I work, because I don't take days off as long as I'm working on something that's supposed to be all in the same mood.
If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.
Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech.
I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning.
If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine.
Google transformed the way most of us get our information with a search engine that enables us to find citizen-created media content alongside the work of professionals.
I studied journalism at university, and I started a little bit of work on a woman's magazine called Minx that was aimed at 18- to 24-year-olds.
When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?
I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.
Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.
For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.
There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.
Actors are superstitious about beggars, perhaps because we're largely in the same line.
Sex can be estranging; it can drive two otherwise compatible people apart.
Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.
Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
Know your enemy. Know yourself. Only then may you achieve victory.
