What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time.
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.
We live in an era now where every episode is reviewed 80 different times on the Internet by periodicals you've never even heard of.
Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.
I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.
If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.
People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
Those who are trying to remain healthy with HIV/AIDS are in the most vulnerable period of their lives; that's no time to leave them without access to care.
I was what they call a pool hustler. That's absolutely true. For long periods of time I got by, barely skimmed by, just playing pool.
Most of what I've written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time when you're going through puberty.
Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.
If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.
But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.
The benefit of film is that you're shooting something for an intense period of time - and then it's over, and you move on to something else. In TV, you're doing the same thing over and over.
I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time.
I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.
Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.
People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed in any accent in any time period.
