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In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills. ”
Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete. ”
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. ”
You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences. ”
Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous. ”
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. ”
In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos. ”
There's a blizzard of metrics that social sites and messaging sites put out there. ”
By the 2010s, almost everybody in the developed world, it seemed, had a powerful digital device that took little or no special skills or training to use. ”
It's a total big difference between a person that got lyrics and a person that can make hit singles. I'm a person that can make some hit singles. I'm not in no booth trying to be a lyrical genius. I'm preparing to make me some singles, and as I develop as a man, then they'll respect my emcee skills. ”