My work became an exploration of non-intention.
You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.
I don't get enough sleep so I always have undereye bags.
In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls. ' They age you so fast.
I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
I'm competing with everyone, but it's okay because they're not aware. I can't shut that impulse off. And I'm glad, because that impulse keeps me on the treadmill. If I didn't have it, I would be like, "Great! Ten minutes! I'm good. " But if I'm competing, I can see what level someone's on and I can top it.
I had been living the life that society tends to dictate for women of a certain age. You marry the person who asks you, even though he may or may not be the best one for you. Around the time that I got divorced, I had an epiphany that there is no blue ribbon or gold medal for living someone else's life, for fulfilling someone else's dreams. It's doesn't make you happy. You just end up with a life that's not yours.
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.
Once I'm done with a book, I'm done! I'm just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I've finished a book I've read it so many times that it's time to move on.
Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.
History and the task of the future no longer signify the struggle of class against class or the conflict between one church dogma and another, but the settlement between blood and blood, race and race, Folk and Folk. And that means: the struggle of spiritual values against each other.