I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.
I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.
One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
I don't think I ever felt an outsider when I had a stutter.
Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright.
I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
Oh, I'm hardly stylish! I'm such a mess. I don't even think about what I'm going to wear; it's the last thing I think about.
I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better.
I love hand-drawn animation, but I have to say I have fallen in love with CG animation. What you can do in terms of visuals is pretty stunning, and I think if I did go back and do a hand-drawn animation, I would want to make sure that, from a stylistic standpoint, it would be as beautiful as 'Hunchback of Notre Dame' at least!
I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so many young writers of my generation who tried to imitate him. I think, for his time, he moved fiction to a different level stylistically, or at least added to the dialogue, but in our time, he's annoying.
'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.
Stylistically, though, I've always liked Carlos Condit, because he at least amounted to at least the level of doing what I do. I mean, but I think he stands a little upright.
Styx has their own style of music, and I think that's justifiable, the same way that Asia and Yes have had - Yes particularly has a unique style that seems to have transcended all styles of music for 43 years.
People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I'm as common as muck.
I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.
People try not to think about what's going on in sub-Saharan Africa. They edit it out of their daily lives. Especially Americans. We prefer a fantasy version of Africa.
I think it's possible to have a conservative serve in a cardinal position, a subcommittee chair position, and be very effective.
I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.
I kind of think we sort of subconsciously draw things into our lives, whatever we're trying to work through.
