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Obviously, my goal No. 1 every year is to play in every game. ”
People think it's just a 16-week season, but this is a 52-week kind of job. You're always thinking about how to improve and what to get for the next year. ”
To rally every black sheep is my goal. ”
It's a weird profession, as I don't really consider myself an actor. I did at one point, and I went and started doing auditions, and I was so useless at them and so demoralised by doing audition after audition and not getting them and also not being able to take it in my stride at all. I just felt crushed and worthless. ”
I always dreamt of being in 'Kerrang.' That was my ambition. I read that religiously when I was into heavy metal. Then the jazz magazines took over. ”
It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist's studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan. ”
To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock. ”
Believers are right when they say that to understand a religion properly you need to get under its skin. But to understand it fully, you cannot stay there: you have to take a more objective view, too. ”
Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job. ”
My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me. ”