Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.
We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.
Crazy Jane is a complex individual who always has a lot brewing. She tries to hold things together on the surface, which is something that we all try to do. She uses these different personalities to try to cope with life.
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There’s always more than you can cope with.
My thinking was scrambled when Sullivan and I separated. Something happened to me that had never happend before. I couldn’t cope. It was heartbreak time. I thought it was the end of the world.
There are so many projects that I’ve written and had to abort because either I felt too distressed by what I was doing to the people who I was writing about, or they couldn’t cope with it because their view of themselves was so far removed from reality.
Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can’t cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there’s nobody who cares what they’re doing.
I have this rubber band that I have all the time on my wrist, and sometimes when I get nervous or anxious, I’ll do this twiddle thing with my finger and I’ll snap the rubber band. A lot of people use rubber bands to cope with things like anxiety and depression and addiction.
I have always worked hard, and seeing so many Icelanders make tremendous efforts to cope with difficult tasks and decisions inspires me.
Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.
I was very young when I made my debut, I was almost like a kid getting that kind of success and adulation which was difficult to cope.
As the weeks went on, I realized there was an important role comedy would play in healing the tragedies of September 11. Comedy can help people cope, and many people were coming to the clubs to laugh out the stress.
You have to laugh through hard things, right? How else do you cope?
I still find it difficult to cope with the solitude of writing. I often crave the feedback of working with a team.
People with success are less able to cope because you’re used to being on Mount Everest and when it’s gone, what do you do?
You have to be able to hold up a mirror to your personality at drama school and recognise the flaws. That’s hard to do as a 17-year-old. But it’s easier to cope with when you’re a little bit older.
Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we’ve had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened that could be considered progress over most of that time. This is because what is most pervasive about social thinking is ‘how to get along and mutually cope.’
