I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.
When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronaldinho because I was younger.
No matter who you are it's the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything.
God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.
I learned all about life with a ball at my feet
Our confidence comes from our preparation.
Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.
I'm thinking about anything and everything. I'm making stuff up in my head, I'm using sense memory. Sometimes when it doesn't come and you've got no choice because you're getting paid to do it, you grasp at straws. It's always easy now with my kids. I just create some "what-ifs" in my head, something horrible that would devastate me as a mother.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching
When I first started writing, there was no way I'd write a sex scene. That just seemed impossible. That's why in "Fight Club" all the sex happens off-screen. It's all just a noise on the other side of the wall or the ceiling. I just couldn't bring to write in a scene like that. So one of the challenges with "Choke" was I wanted to write sex scenes until I was really comfortable just writing them in a very mechanical way.