Hints and tips:
...“Don’t be intellectual with your left brain,” says Conreaux. “You don’t play the gong, the gong plays you.”...
...“My brain became cotton wool. I had deadlines and books due but I would just stare at the computer screen all day. I needed to change something.”...
...The stress levels are low because your brain rots.” But he does not seem to have enjoyed trying to crack Hollywood. “You get advice: ‘You need to be in a comedy frat-boy movie.’...
...Mack writes: “It’s easy for the brain to convince itself that ‘most people think I’m hilarious’. But …most people in the real world are actually very indifferent about most performers.”...
...Although the “brain drain” is acute, emigrants’ remittances have become a vital source of foreign currency. Moreover, many countries can count on plentiful resources....
...Rather, squadrons of fighter planes rattled through my brain – the performers both bomber and bomb, commanding officer and human fodder....
...“I suppose because I’m a snob and I look down on the very thing that is feeding my children, part of me would rather be associated with something that had completely originated from my own brain.”...
...Michael McIntyre is a true comedian, an attractive rather than a huge talent, as evinced in Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (BBC1, Saturday) in Edinburgh last week....
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