Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.
I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.
I want to do different things. I don't want to be stuck in the 'sweet girl' box. I don't want to be stuck in the 'Oh, she is so glamorous' box.
Things swept so badly that I had distrust - after 1967, let's say - of American Keynesianism. For better or worse, U.S. Keynesianism was so far ahead of where it started. I am a cafeteria Keynesian.
One of my favorite things to cook is fondue. I'm Swiss. It's a great social meal.
I was in 'Goodwin Games,' which was canceled, and a few other things, so I kind of swore off television unless I was writing or producing it.
One girl was helped from my appearance on the show, and I swore I would not keep quiet again. When you talk about things that are embarrassing or devastating, obviously you can help people when you do.
The symphonies are the things that, as a soloist, I've not gotten to play. I used to travel the world playing concertos, and then I would sit and listen to the symphony.
I took to the synthesizer. My cousin had some synthesizers, and I'd always make stuff on those things.
It's a myth that I run things at Syracuse University.
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
In my view the tablet and the PC are different. You can do things with the tablet if you are not encumbered by the legacy of the PC.
If you look back at when things like tablets and smartphones were first invented, or the Newton at Apple, that was the first attempt at VR. We didn't even have 3D GPUS, or were just getting them.
There are 50 new tabloids every year, and I'm in them, and I read them, and I do stupid things.
As much as I can and am able to, with the projects that are presented to me, I try to just really choose things that are challenging and are something I haven't tackled before.
I was tagged early as the prototypical white player, the guy with the intangibles - the smart player, the guy who did all the right things.
I don't aspire to just play things that are like me. Whether the accent is Taiwanese or British or Canadian - that is the very craft in which I was trained. It is my absolute privilege and honor to do that.
Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.
It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
