What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
We never see the fancy schools with the blazers and ties in films about Africa! But, in fact, we too have class and elitism.
English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired the way I think about food.
You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
Mark Zuckerberg talks about telepathy, and Elon Musk has invested in trying to create a brain-machine interface.
If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.
I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing.
I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.
Power is ultimately about the energy you emanate from within.
I was a true amateur and embodied what the Olympic spirit is all about. To me, competing was all that mattered.
I love Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Katy Perry. They are all about being themselves and I love that.
Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.
People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.
'Me Too' is about letting - using the power of empathy to stomp out shame.
Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.
I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.
