I'm usually pretty open about what's going on with me.
Usually if someone starts making universal claims, I tune right on out.
I think it's important to humanize history; fiction can help us remember. A lot of books I've read in the past have been so much more important than textbooks - there is an emotional connection with one particular person. I'm very much of a research-is-important type of fiction writer, even for contemporary fiction. I wrote about blogs in America and I've never blogged. But I read many, many blogs - usually about feminist things, or about race, or about hair.
I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.
Rogue states never turn out to be quite the pariahs they are deemed. They are only able to cause, or at least threaten to cause, mayhem because they enjoy the covert support - usually by means of technology transfers - of one or more major powers within the charmed circle of global 'good guys'.
When people think about Michigan, they usually think about cars.
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn. . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.
You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.
Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.
As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.
A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.
I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.
What is best and most necessary usually happens.
"Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They suggestion looseness of expression, a tendency to exaggerate, a careless truth. They lead readers to discount all the statements that you make
The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of the people will be inevitably dragged down to their level, as the government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up.
When a man is attacked in print, it's usually for saying what he says; when a woman is attacked in print, it's often for being who she is.
When you're on a submarine you're usually underwater for months at a time, and you don't get to Skype or make phone calls. When you get messages, they're maybe two sentences. They're very short.
The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment.
I don't really have that much control over where I play. I put out parameters and I accept what I can. If it's really low, or I had a bad experience at a place then I usually don't play there again.
The living usually won't see the dead.