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...when I'll mention, out of the blue, that I once drank too much and that it taught me some things I'd like to share with her. She'll lift her lovely, clear eyes and ask me, "What things?" At which point, I'll choke and wish I hadn't started this. Do I owe her a full confession, complete with mugshots, or just an outline? Perhaps I'll just say this: "Don't drink, you hear? I don't want you to drink." My hope is that she'll smile...
...Integration for Children and Adolescents) was not your average ballet company, and this was no Swan Lake. It portrayed Fortaleza's poorest kids begging at traffic lights and living on the street. "That really affected me," says Da Costa. "The reality in the ballet was just like mine. I hadn't begged, but the lives I saw were very close to the life I was living...
...took a few copywriting jobs, for a department store and a radio station. Around that time I came across a book that changed my life. The book, The Magic of Believing by Claude Bristol, is still in print. If I hadn't read it, I don't think I would have made it--the book was that important--because it outlined a system of thought that was the absolute turning point in my life, in my attitude toward myself. Before it, I was so self-conscious and so underestimated myself that a dirty look would deter me. I didn...
...best stories he had ever told. But he said, 'This story is closer to your sensibilities than my own.' " Once Spielberg began work on the film, at the behest of the director's widow Christiane and her brother, Kubrick's producer Jan Harlan, "I felt that Stanley really hadn't died, that he was with me when I was writing the screenplay and shooting the movie...
...global warming issue, if George Bush hadn't come along, the Europeans might have been tempted to invent him. It's not as if the Europeans are doing that well on emissions control, but measured against the U.S. they look stellar. The Europeans wouldn't look so good on the issue if it wasn't for Bush. He's helped the Europeans invent a common value. There are not that many of them, and they're frequently formed in response to America - another is Europe's common opposition to the death penalty. So Bush has become a useful tool...