I think there is some resistance when people talk about ethical fashion, and a tendency to panic that if you’re bringing a moral agenda and highlighting the origins of the garments, you can’t incorporate style. But there’s no reason why style and conscience can’t co-exist.
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.
I think it’s important to be extremely proud of one’s origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.
Living in the woods is part of my origins, it’s like when I was a kid.
It just so happened that the sound I’ve developed has the Memphis origins to it that made Drake wanted to work with it.
It’s a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person’s art. Certainly, its origins are in that community, but if you want it to endure as an art form you have to let other people have their way with it.
A novel means a new way of doing a story. If you go back the origins of a novel, ‘Clarissa’ – that’s not a novel; it’s just a bunch of letters. But it isn’t! Because it’s organised in a particular way! A novel is what you make of it.
I’m interested in the origins of the religious experience, how the history of religion has evolved over the last umpteen thousand years, and where religiosity is going in the future. I think that’s a topic I’ve been chewing on for a few years; I would love to eventually work on and produce a book out of it.
