I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.
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 America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.
I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life.
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.
Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.
I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.
I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.
In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.
The only thing about my life that's really changed is the fact that a lot of people know me now. I'm still the same person.
It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
I really do believe that my style is informed by the fact that I had such issues with my appearance at various times of my life.
My son is an integral part of my life; the fact of life is that parents and children need you; wife doesn't really need you.
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
