I have always been averse to theorizing about the art or craft of biography. Like Disraeli’s biographer, Lord Blake, who offers the cautionary analogy of the biographical centipede unsure of her next step because of too much cerebration, I have made it my practice to let the facts find the theory.
People talk about world title offers, but boxing is not a sprint, it’s a marathon.
I’m certainly no Cleopatra. I have legs like a schoolgirl and I don’t know how I acquired the knack of attracting producers with very attractive offers for very attractive film roles.
‘Game of Thrones’ offers such a wide range of instruments that I use and stylistically for what I’m doing, but ‘Westworld’ is the same.
After graduating in International Relations in 2011, I turned down safe, corporate job offers and instead accepted a position at an ‘incubator’ in L.A. – a tech word for a team of people who are funded by investors to create apps. I knew the future was digital and that I had to take a risk.
Unlike economics, whose sole preoccupation in our finance-obsessed era is the near-term profit motive, history offers a way to place our tiny lifespans in a narrative that spans dozens of generations – perhaps even reaching into a future where capitalism is no longer our dominant form of economic organization.
Looking back, I believe that acting was the best that I could do. It just happened. I kept getting good offers, and the going has been good.
Often people, when they’re confronted with a poem, it’s like someone who keep saying ‘what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?’ And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.
After I played the frigid doctor on the ‘Peyton Place’ series, all I got for a long while was offers for more frigid doctor parts.
The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.
TechStars offers a network, and being a part of that network is an awesome opportunity.
When New Kids became really successful, I got a lot of offers to do parts in movies and TV shows, but I was really busy, so I pretty much turned everything down. But I always knew it was something that I would eventually put some energy into.
Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers one.
After the Academy Award, well, I was left with a lot of time on my hands. I thought I’d get a lot of offers – and they didn’t come.
I have never accepted any random offers for the sake of being a regular face in the film industry.
If we really want to make change, we have to make peace with the fact that we cannot self-exempt every time the calendar offers us a more attractive alternative.
It’s made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the people around me. Knowing Jesus will return soon makes me want all the more to tell people about him and all that he offers.
Our democracy only works when the official opposition does its job of opposing the government of the day and offers a clear alternative vision for our country, including giving a voice to the voiceless.
To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to change, or even better learn to benefit from change and grow intellectually and personally. That means careful listening and constant learning.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
Paranormal fiction offers authors – and readers – the chance to answer the question, ‘What if?’ All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.
‘NYT Opinion’ offers our readers what we think are the most stimulating and interesting points of view you can find anywhere.
Rent-stabilized tenants face harassment. They face illegal evictions. They’re confronted with ceaseless ‘buy-out’ offers that promise a quick buck if they give up their homes.
When our video of ‘Smooth Criminal’ came out, suddenly we started getting all kinds of offers. We were getting calls from TV shows like ‘Ellen DeGeneres’ and from record labels.
Rejecting offers has not been easy for me, especially when the movies involve some of my favourite actors and directors.
I’d never really been in a series, where you see a man at different points and perspectives in his life. Usually it’s a film, where I’m playing a character who just comes in and offers something up.
I received many offers – namely from Real Madrid, Manchester United, and Milan – but I preferred the tranquillity of playing for Fiorentina.
I get magnetically pulled towards a project because there’s something in it that offers me the opportunity to explore the edge of my understanding about myself.
Food feeds our souls. It is the single great unifier across all cultures. The table offers a sanctuary and a place to come together for unity and understanding.
Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.
I love the fact that Facebook offers equal leave for moms and dads. Consider that for your company.
If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.
When writing, I split my time between my chambers and my satellite office: my neighborhood Chick-fil-A. It offers the word-nerd trifecta: I bring Bose headphones; they provide Wi-Fi and waffle fries.
I’m still getting offers despite my movies not doing well. I feel a sense of gratitude.
It’s interesting that we assign the label ‘political’ to art that doesn’t just fit a mould of status quo. Is ‘Downton Abbey’ not political? That’s political! Every piece of art offers a perspective on the world. And what is politics if not a perspective on the world? ‘Downton Abbey’ is about class. It’s also about race.
At its best, management theory is part of the democratic promise of America. It aims to replace the despotism of the old bosses with the rule of scientific law. It offers economic power to all who have the talent and energy to attain it.
I keep getting many offers for TV soap operas, and strangely a lot of them are mythological. None seem to be interesting enough or have the budgets that would convince me to accept them.
I love DC. I love the people there, and I am deeply in love with that universe, but it meant that for a long time, when other offers came up, I always had to turn them down.
Like many of my friends and associates, I am a life-long Democrat. We have a rock-solid commitment to supporting the political party that we so strongly believe offers the most promising vision of America: one that recognizes the proper role of government, the importance of compassion, and the value of diversity.
What I like so much about Vero – the app and the community – is that it offers the perfect venue to share my work and myself with like-minded, curious people and without the negativity and hate that can come in other online forums.
I do get film offers, but if they are dance teacher kind of roles, I don’t take them up.
The post-crisis perception, at least in the media, appears to be one of Americans being held down by Wall Street, by big companies in the private sector, and by the wealthy. Capitalism is on trial. I see it a little differently. If a lender offers me free money, I do not have to take it.
History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
There is a small industry out there called media training. It offers instruction on how to ‘control a narrative,’ to use that awful term. Most politicians are clients.
When somebody offers you a role which you might not have done for a long time then it becomes a challenge for you.
New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.
I’ve had wonderfully lucrative offers to do another network series. I could do that again and have a very luscious retirement.
President Bush offers the American people an optimistic vision and a clear choice in November. The President has provided steady leadership in remarkably changing times. He knows exactly where he wants to lead this country, and he has complete confidence in the American people.
I got my first break in ‘Mohabbatein.’ After that I didn’t get any interesting offers, so I took a course in interior designing.
I’ve discovered I love the vast landscape a series offers. I tend to write long anyway, so, it turns out, series gives me the perfect vehicle for writing ‘large’ stories.
One of the things I love about my job is that it offers me an opportunity to step into different people and different spaces and different kinds of work in every new thing that I do. I’m just looking forward to the surprises I’m going to have.
