I remember when I first came out as an artist, back in 2004 or 2005, the record label used to take me to all the radio stations and just have me sit in, like, their lunchroom or their conference room, and play for the whole staff. Just to introduce them to me so they would play my records.
I have been able to attend many technology conferences around the world over the years, including some of the largest, like Google I/O, Microsoft's Developer Conference, Apple's WorldWide Developers Conference, Oracle World, Le Web, and more.
Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.
It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
I like 'Confide' a lot. It was just like a great vibe for me. I was in the studio in Atlanta, and I recorded it and thought, 'This is definitely going on my album.'
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
I feel like, even if something goes wrong, I have confidence in myself and my team that we'll fix it.
I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.
I like men who confidently flirt with women they have just met.
If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.
That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.
Something people don't recognize is that being on the space station is probably a lot like being in some kind of confinement - like isolation.
I find most 'rules' about how to write a 'good story' confining, and I enjoy writing stories that don't look like stories at all on the surface.
I don't like any category; categories are not my favorite subject. They're too confining.
Adults have pretty much made up their minds - they like you to the extent that you confirm what they already believe.
We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our eyes like distorting spectacles for everything we look at.
I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s.
I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I'm a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I've been doing for almost 30 years.
When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
