The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.
Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.
Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.
While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.