I'm a great planner, so before I ever write chapter 1, I work out what happens in every chapter and who the characters are. I usually spend a year on the outline.
I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.
A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.
What made me want to play drums in the first place was Led Zeppelin and The Who. My parents had their records, and I grew up listening to them with the stereo cranked.
I play football. It's about winning games. It's not about who can talk trash the most.
Those who willfully conceal assets overseas undermine the playing field for all taxpayers.
Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you.
Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.
I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.
I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.
There are so many new young poets, novelists, and playwrights who are much less politically committed than the former generations. The trend is to be totally concentrated on the literary aesthetic and to consider politics to be something dirty that shouldn't be mixed with an artistic or a literary vocation.
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
You do get some weirdos, but if there are any nice people out there who want to write to me pleasantly, then they'll get a pleasant reply back!
Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.
I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
In February 2016, Russia arrested seven alleged ISIS militants who were plotting attacks in St. Petersburg and Moscow. The group included Russians and Central Asians and a ringleader who had come from Turkey.
He is blind indeed who does not see, in the signs of the times, a strong tendency to plunge the Union as deep in debt as are many of the States, and to subjugate the whole to the paper system.
I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.
It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts.
