Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today people take for granted the freedom to travel to study to work abroad. And the citizens of one country have almost exactly the same rights as another country.
When I had money in the past I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.
You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries they do have accounts but you know Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.
From the time I was a kid I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.
My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.
It's hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen but whatever it is it hasn't yet been duplicated by technology.
The most I ever spent on technology is building a studio - I built one at home in Los Angeles. I can't tell you how much exactly but the whole process is very expensive.
The 'Net is a waste of time and that's exactly what's right about it.
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.
IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.