Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.
Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.
My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.
I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.
The stronger I am in my personal life, the more energy I have to look outward, to address my society.
I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.
The Chinese say that having two homes is the way to madness. I'm not mad, but I definitely wish Hollywood would move to Trafalgar Square. But the life of an actor is a life of movement, isn't it?
I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.
My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.
It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.
I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.
Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend.
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
I'm very much a girl that likes to have options. That's the way I am with fashion, and that's the way I am with my life.
The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.
I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.
I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage.
One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result.
I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.
