The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
I don't think I had a role model. I just was very inspired by an article which I read in Forbes magazine around the information superhighway and the Arpanet and stuff like that. To me, that intuitively made sense, and when I decided to come to the U.S., I knew exactly what I wanted to go and write about.
I feel like Caroline Forbes is such a crucial element... on 'The Vampire Diaries.'
I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
I like meeting people on a genuine level. Like, 'OK, if this person wants to meet me and I want to meet them, let's do it.' I don't like forcing things.
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
I like to find things that are unconventional and make them look classic, because if I'm forcing something, you can just tell.
Dirty Projectors has always been a band that's been card-carrying modernists in terms of pushing different kinds of abstraction to the fore and trying to take them to the center of the culture or something like that.
Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.
These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.
When I had a record deal in the '90s, that was my dream - to make an album like Barbra Streisand's Broadway album - and they laughed me out of the room. Broadway wasn't cool. But artists like Michael Buble and Josh Groban have brought the classic genre back to the forefront, so I'm trying to find my way inside that market.
Songs like 'Peaceful World' and songs that are responsible with their lyrics and talk about love and harmony can take the forefront and do something for real.
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister.
There is often little to distinguish what Beijing wants from what Canada's foreign affairs mandarins want out of the Canada-China relationship, which is in any case rarely even close to what Canadians want - like some demonstrable public benefit for once, the opinion polls consistently show.
Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
I grew up in Manhattan. For Manhattanites, Brooklyn was the sticks, a second-rate civilization. My friends and I, we were so snobby. Living in the Bronx or Brooklyn was incredible... for me, that was like a foreign country.
