At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.
I don't think music teaches about mundane, everyday life. It teaches us what it is to be a human being.
In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald's, Burger King. The Face That Didn't Matter - that's what I called my face.
If I'm in a social situation sometimes I'll hang back and observe people but I feel very much a part of things most of the time and feel very comfortable socializing and have for most of my life.
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.
One life is not enough for me. I want to go lots of places.
I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.
You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.
When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.
Be magnificent. Life's short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.
We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.
The music that I chose during my life, it wasn't arbitrary. It was all in my family home when I was growing up. I never tried to record anything I hadn't heard before the age of 10. Otherwise, I couldn't do it authentically.
I see life as a burning meteorite that you can climb all over, and feed off, as it is falling to earth.
My entire life is a single body of work.
When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.
Everyone always comes to one point in their life as an artist where you can either let your heart guide you or your ego.
I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.
No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that.
I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.
Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.
Disability informs almost every part of my life. It's as important, if not more so, than my gender and sexuality. It's certainly a great deal more important to me than my religion or whether or not I caught a tram, ferry or bus to work.
My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.
I've been trained and lived my entire life on the smallscreen.
Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.
In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.
I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.
The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
