The tool for this, which Michels and Stutz teach to those who are hoping to win an award or who are about to submit a script for approval, involves imagining yourself falling backward into the sun, saying "I am willing to lose everything" as you are consumed in a giant fireball, after which, transformed into a sunbeam, you profess, "I am infinite".
As the 21st century progresses and the City of New York progresses with it, we should keep in mind just why it is a city which people dream of and mythologize, and why the tee shirts and pins and totes and mugs profess: "I heart NY".
I hope if that does happen that I will have the capacity to live in accordance with the values I profess – that I will advocate and be compassionate; that I will live in the love that my special child brings to this world.
I got out my book and opened the sip-top of my coffee, but perhaps I'm not quite as child-unfriendly as I profess, because I found myself unable to eat a muffin in front of a little boy without offering to share it.
"I really have no one outside my parents to remind me that I am a human being, not the animal the state professes I am," he told Gilbert at one point.
For example, having served as a judge on Popstars: The Rivals, Geri once credited herself with full responsibility for Cheryl Cole's subsequent career, humbly professing: "I picked her so I'm really thrilled with her success".
Cornelius Vanderbilt, the commodore's great-grandson, found himself in the unusual position of being just another crushed commuter, but professed, "I would rather ride under the Hudson today hanging to a strap than ride to Albany in a private car".
In The Hobbit, ol' JRR, as omniscient narrator, professes: "I don't know where he came from" but revises his opinion by the time of the first book of the trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, Gollum has a rather tragic back-story that paints him more as a victim of circumstance rather than an evil, self-serving creature.
With the aid of outer technologies we can, in a few keystrokes, send out a million infected messages professing "I Love You" to strangers across the globe.
Another mockingly professes: "I would have preferred 'widow' but I'll settle for 'divorcee.'".
In a recent interview, Conway professed, "I don't consider myself a feminist.
