“The story in the gospels intrigues novelists because: ‘It is a story freighted with the most immense irony imaginable – the decisive embodiment of divine action and purpose and power in the human world turns out to be not only a wandering peasant shaman, but a figure who fails to persuade and ends up humiliated and executed.'”
Tag: 09.15.13
How To Achieve Eight Decades Of Stardom In Show Business
Voice actor June Foray, the voice of Cindy Lou Who and many, many more, won her first Emmy at age 94 and is still performing.
Author: Illegal Downloading Is ‘Moral Squalor’
Philip Pullman: “Authors and musicians work in poverty and obscurity for years to bring their work to the level ‘that gives delight to their audiences, and as soon as they achieve that, the possibility of making a living from it is taken away from them.'”
Is It Time To Stop Terrorizing Big Ballerinas?
Maybe. In the UK, there’s a new show “about big girls who were told at 10 to give up, [but] why would you stop a child dancing?”
Can Schools Teach Emotional Skills? Should They?
“It’s like saying that a child doesn’t need to study English because she talks with her parents at home. … A teacher might say, ‘Calm down!’ – but how exactly do you calm down when you’re feeling anxious? Where do you learn the skills to manage those feelings?”