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.
I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?
And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.
I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.
I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.
Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Management interests me at some stage in my life, I have always said that. When that will be I really couldn't tell you.
If it weren't for the mentorship and guidance from people like my mother, James Brown and others, I wouldn't have been able to make something of my life.
