I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.
I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.
I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.
It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.
The Stones can get out there and do it till they're old men. But certain groups are sad-looking to me.
I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.
Due to my work as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and author, hundreds of people stream in and out of my basement studio to help me with my creative projects.
How did George Bensen cut 'In Your Eyes?' How did I work with the Backstreet Boys? It all comes back to 'Sometimes When We Touch.'
I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I've chosen to work with.
I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.
I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed.
I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.
A hare is like an ass in the length of its ears, yet it is not its son.
The daughter of the literary biographer Leslie Stephen, and close friend of the innovative biographer of the Victorians, Lytton Strachey, Woolf herself put forward, in ‘The New Biography’ (1927) (reviewing work by another biographer acquaintance,...
My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a special sensibility? No. There are individuals uniquely talented & uniquely equipped to interpret the complex symbolism of the world but they are certai...
You have traveled far, but the hardest part of a journey is always the next step.
The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.
TOBY: The world can move or not by changing some words.
