I have to be careful, as I don't want to offend Midlanders, but growing up, it wasn't like growing up in London. Anything you were interested in, you'd be able to find someone also interested in it. In the Midlands, nobody came out as gay at my schoo...
It is not what you say, but how you say it. "Pick that pencil up! -would you mind picking up the pencil? - would you please pick up the pencil?" The way things are said, makes a huge difference in what people think of you. I told my daughter this man...
Growing up, I was a target. Speaking the right way, standing the right way, holding your wrist the right way. Every day was a test, and there were a thousand ways to fail, a thousand ways to betray yourself, to not live up to someone else's standards...
When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bor...
I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store in Queens. It was for older women. I got my bras there, until I realized I didn't want those huge, taupe bras. Everything was beige, with massive amounts ...
You cannot cover up the sun with a sieve.
Don't use oiled paper to wrap up fire.
Easy to run downhill, much puffing to run up.
With so many roosters crowing, the sun never comes up.
The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.
It is easier to pull down than to build up.
If the sky falls, hold up your hands.
Prayers go up and blessings come down.
This was sharing office space with wacko and bordering on ludicrous.
The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.
Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.
17 is the weirdest age, because you can't figure out if you want to grow up or be a child.
L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who.
Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
Charleston is an amazing place. I probably didn't appreciate it enough when I was growing up.
I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.
