I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.
You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.
My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.
If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.
There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.
I started my own martial arts school at 16. And by the time I was 21, I had three different schools.
I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.
Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.
I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.
I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.
The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.
Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other.
I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly.
My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right?
I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to auditions to do commercials.
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.
