Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.
I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.
I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.
Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.
Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.
Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.
I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.
It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!
I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
I have never owned a share of stock in my life, and the only time I've double dipped into anything is at the snack tray.
Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to work with.
Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.
We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting.
Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.
The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
