And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.
Being on Netflix lets us be experimental. We can do crazy things.
Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.
I enjoy being in control, having a lot of creative control.
As well as being a creative genius, Vidal Sassoon was a formative figure of the Sixties. Along with the Pill and the mini-skirt, his influence was truly liberating.
Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
My goal is to put out an album with every song being an original composition of mine. I want the credits to read, 'All songs written by Gregory L. Allman' - that is something I really want to make happen.
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent, I was drawn mainly to Criminal law and Evidence classes. A just-beginning writer, I would find an empty chair and listen, mesmerized, to the lectures.
Criminality being partially preordained may seem to let culprits off the hook. Yet it also makes the proclivity seem ineradicable and suggests that reform is unlikely: once a baddie, always a baddie.
The mere fact of my novel being filmed means very little to me. For a long while after 'The Crimson Petal's publication in 2002, it looked as though Hollywood was going to adapt it.
Like anybody who grew up in the Eighties, I cringe at the thought of these movies being remade, because of the corniness and cheesiness of the originals.
And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!
With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.
We've been very lucky with the 'Being the Elite' crew that everyone is very passionate about pro wrestling. There's no crooks in the group. Everyone's ideas are valued. And everyone who has something they pick and put on the map, they are fully going to commit to that.
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
