I've been very strategic in how I've approached the jobs I want to do.
Anytime I meet people who got to make the deliberate choice, whose parents chose Canada, I'm jealous. Because I think being able to choose it, rather than being Canadian by default, is an amazing statement of attachment to Canada.
I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.
We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission seriously: either to accept it or reject it knowingly and with conviction.
My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.
Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.
I take a role because it makes sense to me, rationally.
Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.
