Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
I have nothing negative to say because what happened to me has happened to many others and I need to always remember that it was not personal what happened to me.
And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.
His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.
It is good to say it aloud: 'Nothing has happened.' Once again: 'Nothing has happened.' Does that help?"
We're just at the beginning of the beginning of all these kind of changes. There's a sense that all the big things have happened, but relatively speaking, nothing big has happened yet. In 20 years from now we'll look back and say, 'Well, nothing really happened in the last 20 years.'
Until 'Bangalore Days' happened, a huge commercial success had not happened to me.
Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.
What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.
No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.
Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible.
Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.
No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.
Sure, I had dreams of being a star when I was 18. I could've pushed it, too, but it wouldn't have happened any sooner. I'm lucky. What's happened has happened in spite of me.