I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
We were five heterosexual, good-looking men. We competed against each other for the sexiest girls... I won.
I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.
It's not just about waking up and trying to be a star... It's practice, practice, practice.
I know what I'm missing. I know what I have to work on. Coloratura. And I sing sharp sometimes. It happens when I'm nervous.
I believe that anyone can be what they want to be; it just comes down to hard work.
If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.
Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.
Where is it?" I asked, willing him to tell me. He laughed suddenly, and I could hear the full-throated, grating sound of the white bear's laughter in it. "East of the sun and west of the moon," he said.
The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element.
They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and looked down upon the Asian continent as backward and inferior. For most of the next 70 yea...
Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry: the heartbeat of the West as it fought its way upward toward civilization.
Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.
Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.
What these men represented was not 'The West' but what was for this century a relatively new kind of monied class in America, a group devoid of social responsibilities because their ties to any one place had been so attenuated.
My mum translated this in her head to "witchfinder," which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more respectable profession than policeman.
When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology, not as real people interacting with other real people, we ignore the cost of human lives and blood.
I'm half Egyptian, and I'm Muslim. But I grew up in Canada, far from my Arab roots. Like so many who straddle East and West, I've been drawn, over the years, to try to better understand my origins.
I'm Egyptian and Muslim, but I grew up in the West, far from my Arab roots. I began 'Sex and the Citadel' to help outsiders - like myself - to better comprehend this pivotal part of the world, up-close and personal.
Celebs that hit the West Hollywood/Beverly Hills quadrant and places like the Urth Caffe are not exactly trying to keep a low profile; it's sort of like if LeBron James went to an ESPN Zone and then whined about being hounded for autographs.
