I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
My kids are go-getters. They organise things.
My dad was the only son from his entire family to come to America, and I was his only son. We had come to the States to achieve security and success for our family. Rules were simple: No fun, no friends, no girls. Go to school, come home, and study.
When you come from a family of communists and you go through your teenage rebellion, what's the best way of rebelling from a family of communists? Well, I put on a suit and tie and became a capitalist... There was nothing I could do to upset my family more than that.
At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.
New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters.
New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters
I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.
I've still got to go and see the world, but I will come back to Australia in the end, when I have my family, in many moons to come.
Bodies come and go, ages come and go, yugas come and go, eternities come and go. Selves come and go.
Good givers are great getters.
I'm an only child, so I don't come from a big family. But it has been my observation from friends who do come from big families that usually, when you have a family fight, on the back end you come out better and stronger for it.
I felt like I needed to come to terms with the decision I'd made to let go of my family. What do you do when you want to be loyal to your family but you feel that loyalty to them is in conflict somehow with loyalty to yourself?
I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society of go-givers.
In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.
When you're from another country, you want to spend time with your family. All your family can't come here. All your friends can't come here. You spend so much time here, you want to go there, too.