Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment.
When you get into investing, your default stance should be 'No,' because most deals suck. Most deals won't make money. Most companies will fail.
I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
If you get through the primary and you work very hard for three months and you're not successful, you go back to being normal. The only thing that changes your life forever is if you win.
Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.
I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.
Having a story is what people connect with, but the story alone doesn't allow you to achieve greatness and results. It's the day-to-day consistency of providing value to your audience.
I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.
Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.
It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.
You have to remember that reality shows capture your worst moments.
If you're given gifts or blessings in your life, it's up to you to help the guy coming up behind you.
Clarity of vision is the key to achieving your objectives.
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
Unless you have financial resources of your own, you can't be free.
Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
Read everything you can get your hands on: Programme your mind to read all the time and everywhere - even in the bathroom; skim through the lines printed on the back of shampoo bottles and sanitary napkin packets.
When I compete, I tell myself to be calm. It's not something that's the rest of your life. You're in gymnastics for fun.
I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.
You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.
The one thing about Billie is he will snap and rip your head off if you point anything out at all other than how beautiful he is and how nice he looks today.
Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.
I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.
Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.
It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.
If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes.
Just knock hell out of it with your right hand.
