Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.
Say you can't put one foot in front of the other, you punch like a child, and you're not flexible at all. We'll show you some aikido, some ground jujitsu, some gun stuff, some knife moves. We can make a pretty good-size dent with that.
You have to have somebody to root for. I truly believe that's how you ground a movie. You ground them in the characters.
When I was 19 or 20, the way I was an activist was by regularly meeting with groups, going to protests, and being there on the ground.
Ground elder, introduced by the Romans as a vegetable, is difficult to get rid of because it regrows from the smallest trace of root.
Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.
Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple.