The World Motivation
There's this perception of D.C. as a boring town run by old white men, but in reality, there are incredibly young people in charge of really important things.
“There's this perception of D.C. as a boring town run by old white men, but in reality, there are incredibly young people in charge of really important things.”
— Kristin Gore · Boring
There's this perception of D.C. as a boring town run by old white men, but in reality, there are incredibly young people in charge of really important things.
In my free time, I'd written 'Sammy's Hill' - it had started out as a play. I just did it for myself.
I consciously decided to make both 'Sammy's Hill' and 'Sammy's House' more of a warm satire and not go the route of writing a dark and bitter book about D.C.
I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face.
Generally, it's a great exercise to not get stuck in one medium too long because you begin to lose perspective on the peculiar drawbacks and strengths of the medium. For example, if I'm in the back of the stage and I want you to see my emotional change by a flicker of my eyelid, we're all going to be in for a long boring evening.
How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
At around 45, when I was being offered the same old boring TV parts. So I went back to the theatre.
Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.
Any writing teacher tells you to write what you know, and for better or for worse, Washington is a world I know well.
I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts.