I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell.
Live a little... Try new things... Don't be a wimp...
No matter how hard you try, after the Day there will always be a Night...
Don't try to be the missing key in my life, and I won't be the unmatched lock, that doesn't let you in.
I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.
I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!
Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change.
Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
I've put on makeup just for fun since I was a really little girl. Now I keep a look book for inspiration - with hair, makeup, beauty tips and products to try.
The God of Quran is trying to unskin Muslims from their humanity. Muslims are good people. But their God is absolutely bad.
My long-term plans are just to get as much experience as I can in Australia and try to make my own films.
The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly.
Experience tells us that whereas that degree of recognition can happen for one or two actors, for the vast majority it doesn't, so what matters is to try and be a better actor.
A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.
Maybe I wouldn't hit three fast food restaurants in a day, but I could hit one in a day. I try not to do that.
In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.
I basically eat a lot of proteins, and I've been eating smaller portions of food. I try to eat all locally raised and organic produce.
Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.
Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work.
As opposed to trying to make a kiss look romantic or sweet or passionate, it's kind of fun to just have the freedom to make it look weird, goofy and awkward.
The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.
