There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.
I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.
I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.
If you Never Give Up, You can Beat The Best !! And in the end you become The Best.
I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.
I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.
It is a shame that the very people who used education to clamber out of the disadvantages they had grown up in, have drawn up the ladder after them.
If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.
Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.
Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.
Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.
A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.
I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.
I sleep with a light on in the bathroom so I can see where I'm at, because I wake up and have no clue!
For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.
I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.
You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.
Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features.
Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.
