My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.
And I learned from my own experience that laughter was the most potent weapon: laughter can kill everything.
I can't listen to my own voice. I change my voicemail on my machine literally every week because I'm so obsessed with getting the right tone of voice.
I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
I become my characters, and then try to allow events in the story to take their own course. I try not to play God, but to let them work out their own destiny.
The Royal Family doesn't go out shopping for their uniforms: they've got some guy sewing on all the ornaments in-house. You could say I've got my own in-house team as well.
Every country should conduct its own reforms, should develop its own model, taking into account the experience of other countries, whether close neighbours or far away countries.
They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.
I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.
I love home, any home really - my mum's, and of course my own. I love eating food there and chilling in bed with a cup of tea.
Even though I'm big on recipes, I love to make up my own dishes and when you take a risk in the kitchen, you learn a lot about food!
I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the time and the freedom to go into a world of my own.
I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.
'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums.
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
I personally want to have children. I love children, and I simply can't wait to have a family of my own.
I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.
My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.
I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.
There's virtually nothing made up in 'The Immigrant.' So much of the film came from somewhere in my family's past. All the details are from my own family.
In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.
