My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.
What makes the vault so spectacular is because it's a very athletic type of event, where it needs a lot of speed, a lot of explosive action and, of course, great coordination.
Diminutive worlds are more likely to be rocky, and lapped by oceans and atmospheres. In the vernacular of 'Star Trek,' these would be M-class planets: life-friendly oases where biology could begin and bumpy-faced Klingons might exist.
We had an era where we wasn't getting paid, before the 'Versace' and all that.
Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.
Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.
Heck, nobody gets along perfectly. But what we have is respect for one another. We have a system where one guy can veto anything.
Vienna is a city where they love sports.
In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons.
As a dancing violinist, there have been a couple of moments where I'm like, 'Oops! This is an expensive mistake!'
I can't imagine writing a screenplay where I didn't feel deeply connected at some kind of visceral level to the material.
Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.
It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were.
But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.
I love my district, the 37th Legislative District in Washington State, where I have lived for more than 20 years.
If we're in a bubble, it's the weirdest bubble I've ever seen, where everybody hates everything.
Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem.
I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.
