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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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The only monsters that have scared the filmmaker are the ones from “Alien” and “Phantom of the Opera.” But he is “mortally afraid” of cops, big churches, and politicians.
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Monster creation is not a mechanical or algebraic process. “What is important is that you riff, you riff by instinct, and you riff with the best you can.”
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The filmmaker grew up Catholic but is now agnostic. He prefers to abandon himself to the embrace, or perhaps indifference, of the Universe.
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Things are constantly flying through your hands as you’re trying to shape the product, says the filmmaker.
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The vampires from “Twilight” and other recent shows have been “defanged” and combined with the bad boy romantic lead myth from gothic fiction. The filmmaker interprets this as a sign […]
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Western culture teaches us to understand the world in terms of binaries. That’s why the myths we’ve created to explain the world need both angels and demons.
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A conversation with the filmmaker and author.
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The current generation is less ready to join the workforce because they’ve been shielded from competitive situations while growing up.
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When it comes to networking, there is more strength in the weak ties of loose acquaintances than in the close ties you have with friends and family.
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Projecting confidence is key to gaining and holding onto power—even if you’re not naturally a confident person.
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A conversation with the Stanford University professor of organizational behavior.
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Many good bosses have had their own bad bosses on the way up, but have patterned their management style after how not to do things.
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Failure is a terrible thing, but there’s no other way for people to learn how to do most things except to screw up enough until the point where they get […]
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An interview with professor of management at Stanford University.
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The art of narration may have emerged as an evolutionary adaptation, says the author. “If I can tell you that right over there in that river was where the crocodile […]
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Reading may have evolved from early hunters’ skills of interpreting animal tracks, which allowed them to find food and determine whether they themselves were being hunted.
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Books are important because electronic storage is fairly fragile. That said, e-books provide many advantages, especially for those with dyslexia and other reading disabilities.
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Authors are always trying to disguise which parts of the novel were most difficult to write. For Atwood those parts are always the exposition, she says.
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For the author, it’s not a question of sitting around and wondering what to write; it’s a question of deciding which of the “far-fetched and absurd” ideas she’s going to […]