I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
When it comes to emotions, women know how to paint with the full set of oils, while men are busy doodling with crayons.
I'm young enough to enjoy life, and you're old enough to mind your own business.
Just because you can, doesn't mean that you should. And just because you can't, doesn't mean that you shouldn't try.
Mind your business" had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend.
An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.
No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.
[T]he definition of 'crazy' in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.
I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.
A hotel is more than bricks and blankets. A hotel is a welcoming atmosphere, and a place to engage in a business transaction with a prostitute.
New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.
Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.
My readers and my audiences have turned into my followers. They are more than interested in what I have to say in the subjects of sales, loyalty, attitude, networking, business social media, and becoming a trusted advisor.
My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance maven in New Orleans. It was just the theatricality and the Mardi Gras and the pageantry that I fell in love with at a...
In this age when people expect to get their music for free, we have to work out how we can protect the rights of creative artists so they are compensated fairly and that the record business itself remains sound and healthy.
If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.
I started at a very early age in this business and I'm sure most of you have read stories about people who have started as children and ended up in very difficult lives and bad consequences.
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.
It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting; and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
