The good traders are the ones who can hold their ground the majority of the month and participate in that small handful of trades that are windfalls. The real skill is in not LOSING money!
I'm not really very ambitious.
I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.
I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism by fire was doing the Donald Margulies play Time Stands Still. That for me was a real education because I spent a lot of time with some incredible journalists, war reporters particularly - Bob Woodruff, Dexter Filkins - people who were very helpful in painting the picture for me and reading the accounts of people and what they experienced, a lot of PTSD.
There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.
Madonna is the most famous woman on the planet and has been for a number of decades.
I just love working. I really enjoy the work, whatever it is.
I know plenty of actors smarter than me with better taste than me who love horror movies and love sci-fi and it just doesn't make sense to me.
Half a truth is better than no politics.
I also encourage my students to read literary criticism that is deeply personal yet formally inventive and intellectually expansive. . . books that offer unorthodox ways of doing double duty as literary criticism and as love letters to the power of literature per se.
Never lend money to a friend. It's dangerous. It could damage his memory.