And as soon as the Internet hit and people started having their own web sites, I realized that people who did what I did, our positions were being threatened because, as journalists, we were the conduits between the celebrities and the public.
When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.
The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.
I was the class weirdo, but I didn't own that weirdo moniker until much later.
I choose not to be at the whim of others. I want to be at my own whim.
I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.
Wickedness is its own punishment.
To save your own hair, wigs are literally the way forward.
Machines and people are both necessary for Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google, and neither is sufficient on its own.
States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.
Wilde is an invaluable acquaintance. Often, in situations where I am required to appear witty, I simply steal large chunks from his works and attempt to pass them off as my own with minor modifications.
I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
Once we accept our own basic worthiness we cannot help but see the basic worthiness of every other human.
If I wrestle in 2020, I want it to be my own decision and not the IOC's.
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.
First, a company cannot knowingly make misrepresentations and inaccurate statements before the Commission... It appears that Netflix made accusations of wrongdoing by ISPs, all the while knowing that its own practices were one of the causes of consumer video downgrading.
I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.
Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.
