Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.
But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me.
When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, my middle school friends and myself really had no idea the impact of that diagnosis, but my family did.
I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.
I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.
I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.
It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.
Barbara Broccoli was a great friend of my late wife's and continues to be someone who is very gracious with me, my family, and our life.
I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.
I didn't want to go get a job or get a degree in business or marketing, or whatever all my friends were getting degrees in.
Well, basically I have a lot of friends because I've been in the business a long time and worked with a lot of people.
What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and caffeine.
When I first heard Wallace Stevens' voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.
I was very introverted. You know, I had my close group of friends, but I really didn't care what the cool kids were doing.
I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.
I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.
All my friends were cheerleaders, and I was the girl who hung out at home. I just worked on my music all the time.
So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.
