I was born into a Catholic family. I grew up in West Belfast. Faith was very important to us eight children and my mother and father. It was grounded in the Christian tradition of social involvement.
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.
There are a lot of wannabe men in Hollywood. But when you have that Hollywood mentality, there aren't a lot of real, grounded people.
I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.
I've got a good family to support me, so I'm grounded in that way.
Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.
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.
The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.
Jennifer [Lawrence] is amazingly grounded in the midst of all this to do. It must be unnerving and hard to relate to the amount of attention she generates.
neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power
I got famous in my 30s. I already had a real life and kids and responsibilities, like laundry and cleaning bathrooms. It's hard not be grounded when you have that. I think, if you get super-famous and everyone tells you you're wonderful when you're 12, it's probably a lot harder.
Working hard and appreciating the accomplishments that have come from that keeps me grounded.
Just practice hard and stay grounded. Treat people like you want to be treated and work hard.
All my closest friends are the ones I made while in college or who knew me growing up. They keep me grounded, and I adore that about them.
The thing that keeps you grounded is doing the thing you love.
The foundation for our self-image is grounded in the first three years of life. It comes from our major caretaker's mirroring.
The way I was raised and the people that I grew up around for the most part were very humble people, and I appreciate all that they taught me, and their energy and their magnanimity help keep me grounded.
I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do
Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
It is vital that our work be grounded in the evidence and thus accepted by the public.