In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.
I don't seek discomfort. But, very often, you realise that what you fear is actually quite ephemeral; something's different, something's unfamiliar; therefore, it must be worse.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.
I mainly listen to the music that's playing during movies. It can be the theme to 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' 'The Equalizer,' stuff like that. I like the blend of orchestra with modern instrumentation. It's something that I've wanted to do.
I like to mix influences from different eras, like maybe '70s bell-bottoms, something fun from the '80s, or a bit of '90s grunge.
With the Internet, if you erase something it just means you have to spend another half-minute to find it.
I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.
I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
We have to make the bureaucracy accountable to the people. It is not something esoteric, it can be done.
I would have been an essayist in the 18th century. Maybe I'd have had one gag in the piece, but essentially I'd be saying something.
Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may well learn something we might otherwise miss.
Something outrageous, in the truest sense of the word, is always happening. On social networks, we're always voicing our reactions to these outrageous events. We read essays and 'think pieces' about these outrageous events. We comment on the commentary. We do this because we can.
The Soviet Union collapsed without a lot of people thinking it should or would, whereas for Estonia, it was something we'd been praying for for 60 years.
I do my research, and if I'm supporting something, then it's because it aligns with me morally and ethically.
Financial innovation is an oxymoron. It's very rare that there is something that's actually financial innovation. It's a euphemism for hiding leverage.
If something can be said to make an awkward moment even worse, I'm going to say it.
I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.
