At moments we are all artists.
Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
I don't want people to think that I can't make fun of myself.
The two things that scare me most about wrestling fans is that they're allowed to vote and allowed to reproduce.
When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were writing encyclopedia entries instead of stories. Their hesitancy about physical and psychological intimacy can be a barrier to vital fiction. Conversely, a narration that makes readers hear the characters' heavy breathing and smell their emotional anguish diminishes distance. Readers feel so close to the characters that, for those magical moments, they become those characters.
I just didn't realize, being a young person, that if you sign up to make a film, a certain portion of your soul is forever gone. From there on, you are that character to everybody you'll ever meet again.