I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.
Cute. I'm on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I tweet about it. Not doing so.
The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting. . . or blindly resistant.
The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.
A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.
Twitter is my main tool for ensuring news balance.
It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.
All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
I think words are the thing that either triumphs for you, in your desire to communicate something, or fails. I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.
Character is simply habit long continued.
You know, I am not a particular Kennedy apologist or an awed fan - I was 12 when he was murdered - but I have discussed Kennedy with historians. For his incredibly short tenure, he was a very important president. Many put him in the second tier, below the big three and surrounded by Truman and Eisenhower. Kennedy moved our soul. Changed our thinking about service and governance. And won big in the greatest nuclear crisis of the Cold War.