I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.
Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.
For a really long time, I thought being different was a negative thing. But as I grew older, I started to realize we were all born to stand out; nobody is born to blend in.
I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest.
Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.
I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.
You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.
I was born to travel and write verse.
I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as the inclination seized me, which, I must confess, was not often. I was certainly getting some enjoyment out of life, but now and then the waste of time appalled me, for I still have a conviction that I was born to a different life.
It's like every day I'm born anew, without Jesus.
I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.
We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.
Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.
My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.
In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.
This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others.
Actually, I was born in Las Vegas. My parents moved to Utah when I was eight because, after 40 years in Vegas, they were tired of it. We ended up in Nephi, a really small town in Utah.
How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.
I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.
I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.
The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.
I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.
You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.
I was actually born in New York, and spent some of my childhood in Boston. But my family moved to San Diego when I was 12, and I went to high school here.
I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle.
Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.
Reform is born of need, not pity.
Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
