Escalating Quotes

There`s something to be said for failing. It`s not the failure you feel, it`s the failure that people project when something disappoints. You`re back to ground zero, where there`s no expectations, and that`s where I like to be. People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low. After something like `Mallrats` or `Jersey Girl,` the expectations are in the toilet. People are like, `He`s over, he`s done.` So it`s easier to be, like, `Ta-da, I`m not.` It`s a much more comfortable place to work from. When you have an escalating career, and every time you have to outdo yourself, I couldn`t handle that kind of pressure. But having to outdo `Jersey Girl`? Not very difficult.

I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. But there are so many people I know who are gay and love their religion. From my point of view I would ban religion completely. Organised religion doesn`t seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it`s not really compassionate ... The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren`t they having a conclave? Why aren`t they coming together? I said this after 9/11 and people thought I was nuts. Instead of more violence why isn`t there a meeting of religious leaders? It`s like the peace movement in the Sixties. Musicians got through to people by getting out there and doing peace concerts but we don`t seem to do them any more. If John Lennon were alive today he`d be leading it with a vengeance. They seem to do their protesting on-line and that`s not good enough. You have to get out there and be seen to be vocal, and you`ve got to do it time and time again. There was a big march in London when Britain decided to join the war against Iraq and Tony Blair is on the record as saying `the people who march today will have blood on their hands`. That`s returned to bite him on the ass. People come to me and I`m a bit like the Queen Mother. I never get those problems. I don`t know what it is with me, people treat me very reverently. It was the same when Dave and I had our civil union - I was expecting the odd flour bomb and there wasn`t. Dave and I as a couple seem to be the acceptable face of gayness, and that`s great. I`m going to fight for them whether I do it silently behind the scenes or so vocally that I get locked up. I can`t just sit back - it`s not in my nature any more. I`m nearly sixty years old after all. I can`t sit back and blindly ignore it and I won`t.

When it`s me in my living room, it`s pretty pure, and then what gets recorded involves more people, and it keeps escalating from there.

This is a spreading story. It`s escalating.

(response to the otaku view of cute female lead characters as a form of wish fulfillment) It`s difficult. They immediately become the subjects of rorikon gokko (play toy for Lolita Complex guys). In a sense, if we want to depict someone who is affirmative to us, we have no choice but to make them as lovely as possible. But now, there are too many people who shamelessly depict such heroines as if they just want such girls as pets, and things are escalating more and more.

Improving global economic conditions have prompted raw materials cost increases. We have seen escalating raw material, energy and transportation costs over an extended period.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.