We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?
Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
Well, I came the second year. I mean I just fit right in. They wrote a great person and I'm so lucky that I got to be part of the family.
I mean I love my family very much, but there is a difference when you're reuniting with your family outside of your hometown and reuniting in the family home.
I really try hard not to work, not to engage, because I know what that means. What hard work it is; it takes me away from my family.
Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt.
In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.
I have a day job, which means my family isn't dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.
Just because we want our favorite team to win does not mean there's any lack of toughness when a player chooses family first.
There are times everyone needs to be together for me and we all just work together; making sure that my energy is good and right when I go do what I'm going to do. That means the family needs to spend time together.
When you talk about a 'broad-based business tax,' that's a pretty broad term. I don't know what that means. But it's not something I would be supportive of.
Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction.
There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
Yeah, me and Q-Tip is cool outside of the business, but you know, within the business sometimes it can get ugly, you know what I mean?
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
If life is a video game, then most of us have no chance of winning, if by winning you mean succeeding in a quest or saving a princess.
Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival.
If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.
Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.
Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.
I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.