This world of ‘Star Wars’ is just so accepting and beautiful that the idea a droid and a human are trying to waddle their way into a relationship is something that’s celebrated.
I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.
America is the land of the hustler: it’s bigger, bolder, flasher, more in your face, whereas England’s more about attention to detail – trying to be refined and classy, and I think a lot of people in the urban scene in this country have had trouble accepting that.
I’m not suggesting we suddenly become a jingoistic, closed-door society that erects barricades at Dover. That would not be in the interests of London. But we can’t, in my view, go on for ever accepting an unlimited number of people.
I want people to be more accepting.
I feel somewhere there is a fault in this whole mindset of not accepting the natural process. To age gracefully, to accept life with grace has more beauty and charm. But you have to be fit and healthy. And that is something we should strive for.
When I hit my thirties, that’s when I calmed down and I wasn’t so tough on myself. I wasn’t doing the yo-yo dieting any more. I gave myself a break. I think that, if you’re more accepting of yourself, you’re more free and open and can just allow more people in.
When people learn that I’m a qualified primary school teacher, I’m often met with surprise and a list of questions, including, ‘How do the children react? How do you do it?’ Children are some of the most open and inclusive individuals. It’s often us adults who have difficulties in accepting difference.
I don’t see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you’re doing is you’re raping yourself really.
I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things the way they are, and wanting to compete and get better, and at what point are you in the right balance.
My grandma blows my mind. To me, she exemplifies what a loving, accepting Christian is.
Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.
Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.
