The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.
As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories
I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.
As a teenager, I didn’t want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.
That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.
I think that when you don't see the boundaries, you cross them without even knowing they exist in the first place.
I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you.
Work ethic and this determination is all part of escaping the depressive side. Of course I'm manic depressive, maybe not to the degree that Exley was, but I think all writers are. There are highs and lows. Look at David Foster Wallace.
I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster, Nor long summer bide so late; And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster, For some things are ill to wait.