Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.
Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.
A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.
You don't have to be ashamed feel down, to have a good cry; we are human after all and it's the part of humanity.
I think if love is real, and headed toward the altar, the sex part-within reason-can wait.
My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.
I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.
Part ways with your perception of reality, allow the unknown and your curiosity muster into a visual you've never allowed yourself to see.
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.
The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.
It's like whether you're in a huge movie or you've just recorded an incredible album you've got to do the next thing, and that's part of being an artist.
Everybody can remember outfits like Celine Dion's backwards Dior tuxedo... these 'worst' dresses become part of pop culture, and we keep referencing them.
I ended up on 'Heroes' because I auditioned for the part like everybody else, but the writers were writing the role of Daphne, which was originally called Joy.
For me, meaning of design is to give soul to objects by Art. Art sometimes need to be in every part of daily life, not only in the galleries and museums.
You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility.
And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.
Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.
I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.
Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.
The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
