I married my first boyfriend. We just married too young. No children. So that broke up. There were a few relationships in between, and then I met my husband Adam when I was 37.
The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of good in the world. I can lead by example and just be this heroic recovery guy.' And that's just a bad reason to get sober. You can't get sober for anybody's benefit, let alone the world at large. You really got to do it for yourself.
You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.
If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein.
I'm just getting people warmed up a little bit at a time, a little bit at a time, so I can fully come with, like, a 'Fix You' - type record, or 'One' by U2.
Just because you get a show and it gets on the air doesn't mean jack. It certainly means that you'll be considered for stuff, but you've got to fight and claw to get every job.
I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
I didn't really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed.
Right now we're in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King.
Hating a book is not unlike hating a person; in fact it's tempting to just go ahead and hate the author personally, by proxy, qua human being, except that I know that would be a mistake.
One person has a responsibility not just for himself but for inter-relationships with the existences of others and the world.
I think there must be something wrong with me as a writer. Because all my friends who are writers find reasons to hate everything about their day. But I just love writing. I love starting the day with language and seeing if I can make something of it.
You just have to speak up. You just have to say, 'I would like to do this,' and it's amazing what people who listen can do for you.
There is a lot of stuff I like. I love backpacking. I love going to an island where I can just sit on the beach and read or scuba dive and sail. I do a lot of that. I still go backpacking around Europe in the summers and staying in hostels. I love that.
I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.
Another word for politics in my mind is organization. You have to be organized; you have to get out there. It's not just magic.
I did not know that you had to learn makeup. I just thought you went, 'Oh, I'm gonna put on some makeup.'
You can type things on the Internet. You can have no credentials in any area and just get on your smart phone and write whatever you want.
I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.
When my entire focus is on training and just preparing... I just do 100-percent that and nothing else.
When I sample something, it's just me drawing from what I'm actually into. It's whatever sounds like a good track.
I always felt like acting was something I could just do if I wanted, which was wrong.
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
Self pity is the worst possible disease that can affect mankind. And if we do just the opposite, which is love, then we have God's feelings with us at all times.
You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.
Just the thought of being on Oprah's radar at all is humbling, but to actually have her take time get on the phone with me kind of blows my mind.
I think I can be pretty special. I think I can impact a lot in the NBA, especially with my size and my shooting ability and athleticism and just being a humble person.
I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole.
I was really good at being a bad guy; I like that role. Not being bad to people - just talking bad.
Peter Jackson has just really earned the right to be Tolkien's torchbearer on screen.
I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.
I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh.
