Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
Then, as now, I believe that the English use language to hide what they mean.
Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.
I'm not cooking every day anymore, and that's the biggest withdrawal. Cooking is honest work. Now I don't know how to measure myself.
Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'
Every year, you have to keep adjusting. I'm 28; I'm not 19 anymore. You have to work harder now.
In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.
But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.
The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.
The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
I just never want to be in this situation where I get to set and they're like, 'We rewrote this scene, you're now naked.' I need a little prep work.
Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.
It's not so weird that four generations are living together under the same roof and trying to make it work. It's how a lot of people in this country are living right now.
In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.
I think in terms of the work we're doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier.
A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.
There is more for women in terms of character roles now. Judi Dench and Maggie Smith have constantly changed over the years and challenged themselves with different roles. That's impressive.
The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.
In their 20s, women try to be somebody they're not and try to turn themselves into something different. Now I'm in my 30s; I'm very happy with who I am.
