Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.
If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.
There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover,' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song.
I grew up in Florida, so you start swimming at the age of 1, really. By 10, I was competitive swimming, and by 12, I had aspirations to be the best in the world.
The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.
I am so grateful, without sounding cheesy, to have such amazing friends with me and to have a career that's going so well.
It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I loved it.
When you're talking about who is doing the most exciting and interesting horror films of the last 20 years, it's Japan. I mean, they are making amazing films.
It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.
Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.
Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.
You're not going to get off the couch and be at some amazing fast pace or burn crazy amounts of calories, but you have to start somewhere... Eventually, you'll get there.
It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people.
I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
I have amazing kids, an amazing husband, a fabulous career, wonderful parents. If I had to go through some rough spots to get to this amazing place, so be it.
I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.
But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.
...trapped in limbo, believing in a lack of belief, but not necessarily lacking the belief to believe.
...slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.
Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!
Have an open mind! Have an empty cup!
