There are few moments in my life where I really remember what I was doing.
People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.
Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.
It used to be for writers that that six seasons and a movie thing, that's the holy grail as writers - your series goes eight, 10 seasons, you're set for life.
Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.
At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.
People are not enjoying life because they're trying to be something or brand themselves.
I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved that way.
After graduating college, I finally allowed myself to strive for what I loved to do, even if there were no guarantees that I would be able to make a living off of acting. This, combined with my life experiences prior - like stars aligning - led me to this lovely role of Katana within the DC Comics universe.
And, strangely, this one of the few things in life that the third, the latter, the buy with our eyes closed has actually done better than everybody else.
My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.
It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.
I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.
Music is the soundtrack to your life. It's not going to go anywhere. But the way people are purchasing music has changed. It's not the same anymore. It will never be the same.
July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.
Truth is, I've spent much of my life trying, unsuccessfully, to explode the myths about Texas.
It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.
When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.
It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.
I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.
The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.
There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.
If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.
As long as you're ahead of a trend, I think you're going to be fine. You really have to have a multitasking mind that can switch from one thing to the other easily without too much focus on, 'Oh, I'm going to Instagram my life.'
While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.
Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.
I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.
You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.
Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.
I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.
