Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened they want a lot of it and when they don't they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
In regard to music I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music because there's always something new to learn.
Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be temperance is something against which at a time of war no reasonable protest can be made.
I went to England in the '70s and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form but as a medium of information.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
At the time 1980 people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear resentment and anger.
Former President Bill Clinton who is widely regarded as a political mastermind may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.
The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.