For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the characters of 'Mad Men' are good company.
The '90s and early 2000s were the 'I' decade. iPhone, the iPod - everything was about me. Look where that got us? In a terrible recession.
If it's servicing a real need, that doesn't go away in a recession. If you're serving a true need, and if you have a loyal group of customers that are falling... As the world goes through a tough time, these customers will stay with you.
When you see people getting involved in Comic Relief, especially in tough times or times of recession, that's very positive.
Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.
Pittsburgh is an underdog city because it's been in a recession for a really long time, since the steel industry collapsed, so it has this underdog mentality. Yeah, there are a lot of people who are conservative, but I also think they want to rally around their Pittsburgh people.
All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
In a recession, people want to be told for two hours that everything is going to be OK. They want to escape from their humdrum or painful reality into a feel-good drama, or a love story that transcends their daily life.
In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not.
Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play.
