Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.
If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.
I always find it kind of more interesting when people ask questions like, "What were you like as a kid?" Or just kind of personal history stuff, like, "What was the lowest point of your life?" Because that would be like, "Huh, well, I'd have to think about that one. " And then give an honest answer. I think a lot of people don't want to give honest answers, or they just are in business showbiz mode when they're talking about stuff, so that's probably why a lot of that kind of thing doesn't get asked.
Outside from with my older brother - and this would have stopped about age 12 - I haven't been in a physical fight in my life. We used to punch each other, but that was little kid punching. You're too scared to hit anybody really.
Aside from accidentally by my kids, like wrestling around with my kids, no one has ever punched me in the face.
I feel like I'm a showbiz professional. This is my job, it's going to have ups and downs. I'm lucky to be able to do this for a living, but I also do feel like I don't anticipate changing the world. All I can really do is do a good job when I'm hired to do a job, and be happy at home.
Tell me what you want, and then I'll put in what I want. . . after I'm done with my codependent providing for you, I'll get a little for me too.
Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead
So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.
The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls "one-use goods," such as food and fuel, where the utilization and consumption of the good are tightly bound together in a single act or event. . . . any economy in the consumption of fuel that enables us to maintain warmth or to generate power with lessened consumption again leaves us better off. . . . there is no great value in consumption itself.
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.