My work often takes me away from my family for long periods of time, so I've really come to appreciate the time I do spend with them.
I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.
When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.
If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Plays, especially great plays, yield their secrets over a long period of time. You can't read it three times and say, 'OK, I got it. I know what's happening.'
There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly.
In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.
To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government.
We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.
I've always been a creative workaholic. I have never had a period of my life where I didn't have at least half a dozen projects going on at once.
Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.
