Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.
My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.
Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out. . . it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually [. . . ] train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.
Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.
I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.
When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.
The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life.
China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.
I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other. . . . It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way. . . . But for now, it's jelly beans and 'Old MacDonald' that unite us.
Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way in a forest, requires some schooling. Street names must speak to the urban wanderer like the snapping of dry twigs, and little streets in the heart of the city must reflect the times of day, for him, as clearly as a mountain valley. This art I acquired rather late in life; it fulfilled a dream, of which the first traces were labyrinths on the blotting papers in my school notebooks.
So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.