Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.
I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.
There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.
I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.
I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.
I hate being immobile.
Being steadfast and immovable with our heels in tar on the Lord's side of the line is the only strategy that works long-term against Lucifer.
What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
I think I have grown impatient with just being a writer.
Even leaving aside government policy, whole industries are already making expensive changes around the perceived need to 'go green.' Al Gore and countless other prophets of global catastrophe are making megamillions pushing these expensive solutions. Schoolchildren around the globe are being frightened by tales of impending calamity.
Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.
There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can't do it.
Being in a heterosexual relationship for a woman is always implicitly a little bit humiliating.
Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.
I try to save being angry for the really important moments - for special occasions.
My philosophy is that we should ask the most important question that's capable of being solved.
Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.
The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.
The story of rural India is a lack of empowerment: perceived impotence. Villagers are being constantly threatened by an authority. The Bolero symbolizes empowerment.
