The primary thing writing and basketball share is the sense that each time you go out, each time you play or begin a piece, it’s a new day. You can score 40 points one game, but the next game, those points don’t count. You can win the Nobel Literature Prize, but that doesn’t make the next sentence of the next book appear. John Edgar Wideman Read Quote
There’s a long history of people who spent that $300,000 on their first film and weren’t quite ready, and then they never did it again ’cause they were out of synch with where they were, and they would never raise that money again. Richard Linklater Read Quote
Because of outdated regulations, workers in different types of contract often have unequal access to healthcare, pensions, education, and training, as well as other social benefits. This has to change for countries to remain competitive and for our businesses and workers to survive in the digital age. Alain Dehaze Read Quote
I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have. Edgar Ramirez Read Quote
Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying. Nathan Englander Read Quote
I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose. Roy Wood Read Quote
I have a terrible temper. I have absolutely no problem with getting shouty or a bit physical. It’s not something I’m pleased about and it doesn’t happen very often, but it’s very much there. Michael Sheen Read Quote
One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it’s sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what’s in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business. N. T. Wright Read Quote
