My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live ...
It's like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don't want to be together. The kids would rather you be happy - and separate - than together and miserable. I don't want my kid to grow up around two parents ...
Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it's wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrate...
I do not set specific work hours as some writers do. I generally stay with a chapter until I am satisfied, do very little rewriting, and if a scene is going well, I've been known to keep night owl hours.
We have the sort of beautiful older woman here in Paris. People like Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux, all these beautiful looking women over 60... So there is culture here in France that even if you are older, you can stay beautiful.
When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master's program and studied American literature.
Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.
Power resides where men it resides. No more and no less.
The power of uncovering India’s biggest concealment is in your hands.
There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
ignorance and power, they´re a poor combination.
We appreciate most that which we have lived without.
But everyone has some kind of power to hurt people.
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
When I was 27, I didn't have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something.
Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter
Love is a power which produces love.
The power of dreams is amazing possibilities.
The only chance of success is to trust in your own power.
Power comes to those who take it.
