I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put A Clockwork Orange my way, and Catcher in the Rye.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
Health is just not valued until illness comes.
Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.
I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN] action is nonaction or what appears to be nonaction. That's a hard concept for Western audiences. . . . We wanted to show a kind of moral action, a spiritual action, an emotional action. Some people will pick up on it; some won't.
I use the term "fool's gold white space" to highlight a common problem for innovation. People see a market that doesn't exist, and assume that one should exist.