I've always been told I have a giant placenta.
Don't let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he's a friend of labor.
I don't need bodyguards.
When you run an organization like the Teamsters one man has to be the boss and run things.
A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.
It has to be considered damned unusual that no other union was ever investigated.
From 1955 until 1965 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as Elvis Presley. From 1965 until 1975 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as the Beatles.
If you're a status quo writer, you're considered to not be political but that's as political as if you're a progressive writer. Some politics are asked to show their passports and others aren't. In the Dominican Republique, if you're slightly progressive, people have a lot of suspicions that you're up to some sort of conspiracy, that this is some sort of plot. On the other hand, if you're conservative and mainstream, people tend to take that as a given and don't notice the politics.
At some point each day (well, most days) I unroll my mat and practice for an hour. I sit in meditation for a while. This can be five minutes or twenty minutes, but the daily practice - simply showing up for it - is centering.
Without the benefit of Google, ask anybody to name more than five female filmmakers that have made more than three films. It's shockingly hard.
Don't take my criticisms as iron-clad rules but more as suggestions.