I know well how much this project meant to my father, because he and my mother worked on the book at home in the evenings and on weekends for about two years and, as a 10-year-old, I was sometimes called on to read the original stories to him while he checked my mother's typing.
"Yes of course, what do you want to know?" Well, not much.
We know well how much determination and courage it takes for a transgender person to stand up for themselves in a world where too many of us face violence because of who we are, in a world that regularly tells us we are crazy, that our bodies are disgusting, that we are worthless.
In person, at least with people he doesn't know well, Mr. Coogan is much more subdued than he is onstage or on screen.
Even if you're talking to someone you know well, learn as much as you can by asking questions, follow up questions, and personal questions.
They operate in areas they know well; they know how much their neighbors make in wages, whether they receive remittances from overseas, or if they have some other source of income.
North Koreans know well that South Koreans live much better, while their own government demands constant sacrifice.
When I'm home I work with a sword and it's a weapon that I know well because it's so much shorter.
They document something many rabbit-savvy vets and biologists know well: that lagomorphs are so much more than emitters of passive loveliness perpetuated by advertisers.
In "Two Lovers," Phoenix played one of the most radically fractured characters in the modern cinema, bringing a profound and ardent anguish to the part of a young man, not quite so young anymore, who's coping with mental illness but knows well how much life he's missing out on and reaches desperately to try to get it.
