Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!
I'm interested in stories about human beings. I don't care where or when they are set.
When they see you get what you want and move on, quickly, you've done a contract with the crew from that point. In Britain if the sparks call you Guv on day two, you never need an award of any other kind.
You just have to know what you want and what you're doing and it leads to a kind of general well-being, which I think you sensed when you were there.
I was always entirely about work, about getting where I am now. If I'm not working I'm thinking about it, though at some point I learned not to talk about it very much.
I love audiences, but they're not there to drive the bus. Whenever you ask opinions or anticipate opinions you can get pretty terrible art, or non-art. You need a single guiding intelligence, even in a collaborative form.
I'm not very precious at all, which I think people find surprising.
In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
Now, we have the Holy Ghost. Each one of us who is a member of the Church has had hands laid upon his head and has been given, as far as an ordinance can give it, the gift of the Holy Ghost. But, as I remember, when I was confirmed, the Holy Ghost was not directed to come to me; I was directed to "receive the Holy Ghost. " If I receive the Holy Ghost and follow his guidance, I will be among those who are protected and carried through these troubled times. And so will you, and so will every other soul who lives under his direction. If ye are prepared, ye need not fear.
Certain people always say we should go back to nature. I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.
Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.