Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform.
I have noticed that these days, people don't want to take their time to succeed.
I got a job as the Visuals Art's Teacher at my Alma Mata, St. Mary's College. Then my interests shifted to animation. Ironically, it was one of my students who sparked this energy in me by introducing me to an animation program called FLASH. So I dabbled and played around with it.
A true artist is practically married to his or her art form so I just couldn't turn my back on it.
From as long as I can remember, I was always fond of drawing.
I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.
I remember my friends at primary and secondary school admiring my work and even paying me money for some of my pieces.
A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You look at things ecologically. When you see a cow on a feedlot, you don't just see a cow; you see a cow that is eating certain food. You follow that food and that food takes you back to a corn field.
What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.
Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.
I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.