There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
For many years, I decided not to do television because I have three children, but now my youngest is finally old enough to be in kindergarten. So I'm not feeling that kind of tug of not being with her as much.
I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.
Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.
Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.
It's hard to get away from being old. I still talk about the TV set.
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
My workouts are based on very heavy, fast movements using weights, the science behind it being that the faster you move a weight, the more fast twitch fibres you rip and then repair.
I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system.
I hate to talk about typecasting, because being typecast as Columbo ain't cancer.
Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.
It was never easy being Cicely Tyson. And it will not be easy being Octavia or Viola Davis.
There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There's very distinct crossover behaviors.
Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
When I talk to students or young writers about the importance of being unafraid to take controversial positions, I'm struck by the degree to which they can't entertain a thought, much less commit one to paper, without imagining the cacophony of snark they'll get in response.
