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I like high fantasy as much as the next guy, but I also like a bit of grit and grime with my faux-medieval trappings. ”
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength. ”
In Cuba, where Wi-Fi is both slow and terrible, you will be an emissary from the future, a hint of the degeneracy to come. You're a full-on mainlining internet junkie with the world's uproar piped into your head 24/7, your emotional landscape terraformed and buffeted by whatever some narcissist just posted on Instagram or some windbag on Twitter. ”
It's important for me to exalt my players in their strengths and to try and cover their weakness, no? ”
It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness. ”
My background is in psychology - that's what my bachelor's degree is from, and my specialization. ”
Food can offer a moment of pure emotional pleasure in an otherwise hard and difficult world. ”
There's only one music video that had an emotional impact on me, and that's 'Hurt' by Johnny Cash. That's exceptional. There is no music video I can think of apart from that one that really reaches you inside. ”
I don't want to knock photography, and I don't feel that film is up there but photography isn't. I think they're next to each other really, you know. There's an incredible strength to a still picture. Or there can be an incredible strength to a still picture that can outlive you. That can outlive a film. ”
People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious. ”