There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.
We ultimately have to find truth in the material, and I think that transfers onto the screen. Obviously there's varying degrees of it, and we don't get it right all the time [laughs], but I think when it feels grounded, it's because we recognize the truth in the material.
I feel quite grounded, which is great.
But as far as the fame goes, my parents make sure they keep me grounded, for sure. They make me wash dishes still.
I think that's what keeps you grounded - having your own life that's not directed by your job.
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It's not that hard to stay grounded. It's the way I was brought up.
Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.
I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.
People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.
I'm a lot more grounded now, a lot more settled in my skin.
Anything that's really grounded in humanity and is real, but just happens to be faux pas, or just really shouldn't be funny, I like it.
Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed
Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in the truth of what is.
The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.
Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.
You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable.
I'm very domestic, and I think that keeps me sane. My personal relationships keep me grounded.
I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.
I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the laptop. It's like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.