WICKED COOL RILEY: When I was a teenager declaring my love there was a lot of mumbling and short, declarative sentences. WICKED COOL RILEY: And idiotic grinning. JJ: I never declared love to anyone as a teenager. JJ: I didn’t believe teenagers had the capacity to declare love. JJ: Even when I was 16. WICKED [...]
When you grow up you, tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.Steve Jobs
This man was truly a visionary, and this quote tells me that Steve Jobs was as much an artist as he was a “tech guy”, and he showed us the beauty of design, which for him was an ethos as much as an aesthetic. It’s like how when physicists speak of the elegance of theories; [...]
3. The black Power Ranger was black and the yellow Power Ranger was Asian because…we were so completely ahead of our time and beyond the capacity to even think in terms of something as inconsequential as race that… uh… I don’t know. Casting directors were racist in the nineties. I beg to differ; casting directors [...]
Even back in 1993, Branagh’s casting of Denzel Washington as Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing caused nowhere near as much controversy his decision to put Keanu Reeves in it. Hilariously, I remember watching this adaptation when I was in 7th grade and not even blinking at the fact that Don Pedro was black, [...]
My friend Allison emailed me this morning with the subject line “I’m concerned…” That hyphen in my last name is a double-edged sword, man. On one hand, it causes untold administrative problems. On the other, I can be DAMN WELL ASSURED that I’m most likely the only Sarah Jae-Jones in existence. (Because I must be [...]
My vocabulary is apparently about 37,700 words large. I wonder if my score would be different if I had chosen English as my second language. It is, technically, but I do consider myself a native speaker of English.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.Steve Jobs
JJ: I once heard DT describe the story of Doctor and Rose as a “love story without the shagging” and while it’s true, it sort of made me sad he had to specify that. Marie: Doctor and Rose ♥ JJ: ♥ followed by T_T followed by ♥ ♥! followed by …♥? Marie: LOL JJ: Oh [...]
Americans have found it unbearable that Posner turns into what they call a loser. An English audience simply expects it! I had an email from a very smart American friend saying, "But he's put up with all this teasing at school, he's popular with the boys, surely he would turn into a TV director."Nicholas Hytner, in an interview about The History Boys
I often ponder on the differences in character between us Americans (specifically USians) and those across the pond. Having lived in London, I would have described those who lived there as “charmingly self-deprecating”, and I wonder how much of that is the legacy of having lost so much of their Empire after the Great War. [...]
Here’s a strange, midday nap dream narrative for you. I pop across the street during my lunchbreak to the British Museum where I run into Christoph Waltz, who is apparently my sexy German language professor also starring in a musical called Schadenfreude!, for which there are 2-color, 60s-style adverts everywhere. On my way back to [...]
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