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They still have years of work ahead, but for now, Bale is grateful that his day job didn’t interfere too much with the groundbreaking festivities. “I’ve got to shave my head next week [for a movie],” he said, referring to the untitled Maggie Gyllenhaal film ...
that matters in the end. It’s the characters, and this film doesn’t have them. I don’t want to spend time with Scott and Cassie and Hope and Janet because there’s nothing there to spend time with. I don’t care about what happens to them because there’s nothing to care about...
“True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care — with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.” — David Foster Wallace,The Pale King Among David Foster Wallace’s papers at the Ransom Center at...
One thing instilled in me by my late father was an appreciation for tools, their care and feeding and especially the use of the right tool for the job. As a jack of many trades, in his 89-year lifetime he accumulated quite an array of tools, many of which I still have. One Christm...
and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me. I’m not sure I could give you a steeple-fingered theoretical justification, but I strongly suspect a big part of real art fiction’s job is to aggravate this sense of entrapment and loneliness and death in people, to mo...
(Image credit: Dreamstime.) The most important job of a parent is to make a child feel intrinsically worthy, Neff said, no matter their accomplishments or failures. "As parents, you want to completely accept your child for who they are (rather than who you want them to be), but you ...
John had been swept along near the center of the youthful, free-wheeling (if not care-free) cultural phenomenon that had begun to transform Austin. By the late 1970s the city had begun to see in itself things that those young freaks had been impertinently celebrating for years. Though the...
"My coaching sessions were essential in helping me get through pregnancy and have resulted in me being happier, healthier, and more productive overall," one BetterUp participant said. But BetterUp Care isn’t just for new mothers. There are countless changes that occur at home and in the wor...
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