Will Smith
Will Smith
Willard Carroll "Will" Smith, Jr. is an American actor, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the most powerful actor in Hollywood". Smith has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won four Grammy Awards...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth25 September 1968
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just as muddled as I do, and might be happy to tag along with me on this search for clarity, for precision. I love that aspect of writing. Nothing makes me happier than to hear a reader say: that’s just what I’ve always felt, but you said it clearly.
I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human—I only love to be so.
Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.
If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I've always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval.
A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18. It gets harder the older you get, as you make different life choices, as people say in America. A lot of women's friendships begin to founder.
And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. But in another way, when I'm writing, what it's about for me is being good on the page. None of that noise could change the way I feel about my writing. Which is not always particularly positive.
With United, there's a difference. You're under the microscope all the time as the Red Devils are football's most supported team in the world.And the difference between Leeds United and Manchester United is not just the set-up but the competition there is, you need to perform or else you'll lose your job.
With us having our new club, I just jumped at the first opportunity. In the eight years we've been in existence, we haven't had the space to have something like this. I hope it's the first of many.