Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler?
My taste comes from when I was 12 years old and saw Genesis or Laurie Anderson or some performance artist who had put paint on himself. I've seen a lot of theater, but that's not what woke up my taste to become a director; nontheatrical things were much more theatrical than the theater I was seeing.
'Spectator Books' is presented by the genial Sam Leith. Leith has a little catch in his delivery that quickly becomes addictive. It's things like this that give podcasts their charm.
One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.
No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.
Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things.
There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it.
There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.
I was in Paris for nine years, starting in '98. One of the great things when I was first there were these wonderful CD collections, selling for almost nothing. For ten euros, you'd get three CDs of all the Gershwin songs.
In chess, there are some extremely beautiful things in the domain of movement, but not in the visual domain. It's the imagining of the movement or of the gesture that makes the beauty in this case.
I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.
Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.
Ghostly things don't really scare me, but they really intrigue me.
Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
