In the South, it is different, they have a audience that is literate.
It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
It's very Canadian of me - or maybe it's more the Catholic schoolgirl in me - but I always really want to do a good job.
I want to get a gold star. And I know that there are places that I need to go in order to get the story right. I'd rather do it right than have to do it twice.
I don't read anything about myself.
It's very disconcerting to have a camera shoved in your face. It's really discombobulating. If you're the least bit nervous you forget what you just said, you can't find your way through, you can't follow the logic of your own statements sometimes. It's a weird sensation. And I think that really helps to lock people in place.
More people need to inhabit this world.
People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.
With friends like these, who needs hallucinations?
Conducting is intensely social. You work with a hundred people every day. You collaborate, you try to focus their thoughts, you try to give them a concept, you try to inspire them, and it's actually exhausting.
Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you're not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.