When Obama dispenses with that dread sobriquet 'professorial,' he does it by being, well, more professorial.
Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers or giving cash to candidates.
Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.
Being exposed to the enlisted Army was an eye-opener. I thought everyone was like me, but the enlisted Army is a constituency of the dispossessed.
It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.
Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular.
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
Nothing motivates an 18-year-old like being disrespected.
Being in love, and I'm not an expert in this, I've lived it as much as anyone has, but I've not dissected it.
I'm a writer! If you work in an office, it dampens you. It makes you fit a routine. The effect of being a writer is not dissimilar to being long-term unemployed. And everyone knows that is not good for you.
Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.
England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.
It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
I would go through these cycles of being really, really focused on work, and not being around anyone, to being around everyone. And that could be distracting. It was nothing or everything.
Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.
It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.
I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.
Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
