The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.
Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.
How much closer can I get to the common ear, the mainstream, and how much it can still be from this other world, this other place? That’s the line I keep trying to tread but have my wings extend more on both sides.
Barack Obama’s large contributor was Goldman Sachs – same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.
Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
I am fighting royalty. I have gypsy kings on both sides of the family.
Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven’t developed or haven’t expressed.
I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.
I do abs every day: regular, weighted crunches and sit-ups every other day, then my obliques and my sides on the alternating day. So I’m working my core every day.
The issue of immigration is one of the most complex and politically difficult issues because there is so much passion on all sides.
It seems obvious to say, but I really admire the creative sides of Steve Jobs.
People love to take sides, but it’s not effective. It’s not really an effective way of communicating something, because you’re either already part of the side or you’re going to feel attacked and get defensive.
It’s so easy to be polarised and yell from different sides of the room about certain subjects, but I think it’s so much better to walk into the middle and have a conversation to drive change forward.
