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For me, workout is the way of life.
To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.
Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.
Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
I always say yes to everything because I always feel that whatever comes my way, life meant for me.
If anybody calls me a female Quincy Jones, that's way, way complimentary. That's something I'll cherish for life.
Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.
Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.
It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.
I have a personal life and a professional life, and there's no way to separate them; for a while I tried, but no one could find me.
The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.
For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.
It has been a wonderful life for me. It's just been a blessing. I can't say I would have done it any other way. I have no regrets. I like what I do.
I just absolutely, totally hated school. It was like a prison to me. I just could not stand that structured, absolute disciplined way of having to deal with life.
I allowed life to give me presents. And everything just sort of happened the way it was supposed to happen. I did not pursue anything. It more or less pursued me.
And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.
Don't get me wrong: school is good and all, but school is way too slow for me. Like, super slow. So I didn't want to go. I wanted to learn on my own with real life experiences.
It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.
I say that I suffer from what Rosalind Krauss was calling the post-medium condition, where an artist essentially employs several mediums in order to bring to life whatever specific ideas that they have. For me it's always been that way.
The idea of me writing something that I'd get to be in as well was not what I saw coming. I do think that life works that way. When you kind of let go of something and accept that it hasn't worked, it takes all the pressure off, and then you end up getting it.
Donna Tartt blows me away - that impeccable writing, so rich you could eat it and so luminous that it lights up the whole room, and the way she brings her characters to life so completely and in such fine detail that you know them as intimately as your dearest friends.
Your whole life is changed with that first child. Your social behaviors are all turned upside down, you're sleep deprived, but eight months in, my son had this seizure, and it just woke me up to the idea that, oh, no, this can end. And it can end in a way that will destroy you forever.
There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.
I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.