I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.
The thing about being an outsider... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for the people who just don't give a damn.
I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
When I look back to when I had my first son, I was unhappy. I couldn't understand why the weight wasn't just falling off.
We're fragile things, Harb. It doesn't look like it but we are. We're here one minute, and just like that, we're gone. The Peacemakers (The Nemesis Engines)
I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?
If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
I'm not interested in clothes that just convey a certain look or fashion. Clothes for me have always been a form of self-expression.
Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to.
I'm always looking for something. Not in an unhappy way. I just like to try different things. I don't want to be morbid, but I'm not getting any younger.
Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.
It went automatically to a heavy-weight mother with beetling eyebrows who looked as if she had just come from doing a spot of knitting at the foot of the guillotine.
Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.
When your child is looking up at you, and you are putting them to bed at night, and they are just lying there, you have to remind yourself that's what it's all about.
Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.
You can get pictures into what people are sort of thinking about others. Just go onto Google and type 'Why are Indians' and then look for the autocomplete.
I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.
