Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than delving into a company's new products? But the truth is that individual stocks are riskier than broad indices.
I changed it to Leslie Hill, only that seemed more like a cocktail pianist. Eventually, being an admirer of Jack Benny, I took his name.
I generally enjoy talking with the audience - they give you so much. They've usually had a cocktail or two and they are wild, so it creates a fun environment.
Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.
I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.
I go to these cocktail parties now, and I say I make video games, and people go, 'Wow.' I can attract crowds.
As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.
You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.
Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.
My late husband's family is not something I sit around and discuss at cocktail parties.
