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In yesterday's post, I mentioned Daniel Radcliffe's interview in PARADE Magazine. The wise Mr. Radcliffe had this to say as well, on a slightly different (fear-related) topic:

You've had enormous success for someone so young. Do you fear that it won't last?Yes. But it's reality, not fear. It will happen, and I have accepted that. In a way it's a ( Read more... )

Our local paper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, includes PARADE Magazine in its Sunday issues. The January 8th edition featured Daniel Radcliffe, who was interviewed as he finished his run on Broadway in How to Succeed in Business . . . and was ramping up to host SNL.

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I know people who have found story ideas and book titles and such from songs. I've not gotten story ideas from music, but I have gotten some ideas for poems from song lyrics ( Read more... )

I was on Twitter the other day when Neil Gaiman made mention of a particularly interesting/motivating rant by Kevin Smith. And sure enough, I went over to ThatKevinSmith's Twitter page and found inspiration. Here are a few pieces of what he said:

Sometimes, you gotta believe FOR everybody else - and sometimes, you do it by yourself for a long time ( Read more... )

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Remember how I've said many times now how brilliant my friend Tanita's speech was at the Coretta Scott King awards breakfast? The word that most often comes to my mind when I think of her and her speech is "magnificent". And now you can sort of see for yourself. It's not a video of her speech, which would convince you in a trice, but it's her ( Read more... )