chris rock in rolling stone
Reading the latest Rolling Stone (I got suckered into a subscription, do not ask) reveals some gems from Chris Rock on page 38:
“People have no idea of the difference in health care in this country. I mean, my father got sick when I was poor. My mother got sick when I was rich. My father’s dead. My mother’s alive.”
Seriously, coming from Europe, I am amazed at what they call health care here in the United States, land of freedom, democracy, unlimited possibilities but apparently not .. healthcare. Just a simple ‘fact’ that astounds me: people (I personally know) do not go to the doctor here when they get sick because it is too expensive.
He also has some enlightening, almost taoist, ideas about how to approach his career. Asked if there is a plan to his movie career, which has been all over the map, he answers:
“The plan is to not suck. Sometimes I stick to the plan, sometimes not.”
It took me a year here in grad school to figure that out.
May 19th, 2005 at 11:19 pm
good that 1 year is enough for you to figure that out. I hope it wouldn’t take me a life time.
Why people ask about your plans anyway?
Sometimes I wonder do they really care? Or they just couldn’t think of better to ask?
(though apparently i asked my new friend that question)
Urgh
*frowned*
May 24th, 2005 at 10:15 pm
But how do you balance not sucking with taking risks? That’s a tricky bit.
We can “plan” by finding and sticking to things we know we’re not too shabby at. But at times, that means playing it too safe.
As Scott “Understanding Comics” McCloud put it, it’s not an experiment if you know the results in advance.