When you turn that fantasy into a fact, you are in a position to build even better fantasies. And that, my friend, is the Creative Process.
I hardly ever work out.
It’s like, if you can’t focus on a movie for 90 minutes without looking at your phone, then don’t go to the movies! You’ve got some issues, so you should probably stay home and work on those issues, and not distract everyone with lights, and sounds, oh my gosh, the tapping on the screens, it makes me crazy!
As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.
Costume designers don't care about trends. They appreciate, above so many other qualities, that tailoring is everything, which is a mantra for the way I dress. Ladies: The most important thing in clothing is to find a good, inexpensive tailor, because clothes at the stores are made for bodies that are anomalies.
One time I had too many Heinekens and I googled myself and realized that that was a very, very bad combination. One should not google oneself. My mother lets me know when I'm being followed by paparazzi. She's like, "There's a man who is outside your house, Ginny, and you need to be logging onto this website to see if you can find a pattern in when he follows you. " But otherwise, I can't find any good reason to read my own press.
I cherish all of the times I've fallen on my face and made mistakes, because those experiences have made me who I am.
The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other.
Rest is a decision we make. Rest is choosing to do nothing when we have too much to do, slowing down when we feel pressure to go faster, stopping instead of starting. Rest is listening to our weariness and responding to our tiredness, not to what is making us tired. Rest is what happens when we say one simple word: “No!
And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.
I call my wife and talk to my children four or five times a day. I've surrounded myself with great people and friends, plus I'm always willing to make amends.