I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.
Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader.
When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.
What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.
I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.
Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice.
I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.
Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.
History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.
