I Know How The Academy Awards Works:

As Long As You As An Individual... Can Convince Yourself That In Order To Move Forward As Best You Can You Have To Be Optimistic, You Can Be Described As 'one Of The Faithful,' One Of Those People Who Can Say, 'well, Look, Something's Going To Happen! Let's Just Keep Trying. Let's Not Give Up.

As A Young Man, Even If I Was Going To See A Play Or A Film By Myself, I Didn't Feel Like I Was Alone. There Was Something That Was Unfolding Up There That Brought Me Into It. And I Recognised That. For Those Two Hours, It Made Me Feel Like I Belonged To Something Really Good.

I Had To Keep Breathing. Even Though There Was No Reason To Hope... I Stayed Alive. I Kept Breathing. And One Day My Logic Was Proven All Wrong Because The Tide Came In, And Gave Me A Sail. And Now, Here I Am. Im Back... Because Now I Know What I Have To Do Now. I Have To Keep Breathing. Because Tomorrow The Sun Will Rise. Who Knows What The Tide Could Bring?

When I Work, A Lot Of Times I Have To Lose Weight, And I Do That, But In My Regular Life I Was Not Eating Right, And I Was Not Getting Enough Exercise. But By The Nature Of My Diet And That Lifestyle - Boom! The End Result Was High Blood Sugars That Reach The Levels Where It Becomes Type 2 Diabetes. I Share That With A Gajillion Other People.

I Am A Lay Historian By Nature. I Seek Out An Empirical Reflection Of What Truth Is. I Sort Of Want Dates And Motivations And I Want The Whole Story. But I've Always Felt, Unconsciously, That All Human History Is That Connection From Person To Person To Person, Event To Event To Event, And From Idea To Idea.