Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be. And that, if you're lucky, he just might be the teacher who turns you into the person you are supposed to be.
My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done a ton of editing and refining and rewriting. When I write novels, I always make related scrapbooks to help me organize and test my intentions.
I try not to question the choices of the production. They've done such a good job up until now that I'm sure they have the right plan in place. And to be quite honest, we don't even know exactly when it will be coming out.
I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living.
People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is.
There's a big difference between oneness and sameness. Oneness implies that we're all connected and that we all come from the same source. Sameness implies that we all have to do things and exactly think the same way as everybody else does.
I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
The bad player is the one who tries to calculate and play with the odds, as if his game, his life, were one of a large number of games. To do so is at best to succumb to another necessity, the necessity of large numbers. The good player does not fool himself, and accepts that there is exactly one chance, which produces by chance the necessity and even the purpose that he experiences.
Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.
Ultimate stupidity: Mistakenly thinking you will get what you want by complaining about and focusing on exactly what you don't want.
To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves. . Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.
She said, "As long as we're with each other--" "We know we're in exactly the right place," he finished.
Each system is perfectly designed to give you exactly what you are getting today.
What I do when I write is I just write the way I would tell it, so it comes out just exactly the way I would talk to you.
Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.
If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.
I treat winning and losing exactly the same. I see them both as necessary steps to get us where we are going. Big failures big lessons little failures little lessons.
As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing.