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The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Ask yourself: If I can't avoid it, change it, or make it go away, what if I changed my response to it? What if I decided to stop letting it bother me?
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You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't hers at all: it lay in language. Every language assumes a centrality, a fixed and settled point to go away from and come back to, and what my grandmother was looking for was a word for a journey which was not a coming or a going at all; a journey that was a search for precisely that fixed point which permits the proper use of verbs of movement.
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Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.
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There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.
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What's funny about that office is it's entirely dependent on how close you are to the president, because the president decides what your role will be. If you get on with the president, that's great; if you fall out with the president, power can go away.
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I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.
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Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all my life, if I had never seen or felt the fear of being tortured or deported or blown up into a million pieces, then I would not fear it.
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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
