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I grew up in what you might call a relentlessly creative household. We were given art supplies, music supplies... Our mother knew enough to get us started and then stand back and not meddle. My parents never said to us, 'Don't you think you'll need something to fall back on?' They acted as though creativity was completely normal.
When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.
You have to be enough of a parent - you have to be there. If I'm feeling bad, I really do just have to get on with it and try and channel it back into my work somehow, do something positive with it.
Who is interested in that? Who is interested in the warm and fuzzy? There's enough warm and fuzzy on television.
I always say that when I see that needle start to go in the other direction, when people have had enough of me, I'm going to be smart enough to say goodbye. It's such a joyous ride to be on top, and it takes away from that ride if you sort of ride it down.
Funnily enough, countries tend not to do things that are against their own interests and the French government knows that opening up a travel point into the U.K. at Calais would be an unmitigated disaster for them.
I have travelled enough internationally to know and accept the reality that, overwhelmingly, people are well disposed to Australia but in truth know very little about it. In particular, people know hardly anything about Australian politics.
You know what I worry about? I worry that kids today don't have enough time to just sit and daydream.
If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.
You are never going to get snooker on to the front pages because there is not enough money in the game here.
I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.
It's tough enough handling the teen years in private without all the pressures of work and long hours on the set.
It's bad enough when people are comparing your movie to just other random movies, but when you have another 'Carrie' to compare it to, it's rough.
You sort of feel when you are given an award, you feel like, well then you have got to do something to deserve having been given the award. It worked differently with me cause I didn't feel that I had done enough.
They don't fund the arts enough and they so often take words and music for granted and performers for granted - particularly women.
I just worried about my weight. Worried about my appearance and thought I wan't pretty enough to be a pop star. It was very very strange.
My mum keeps me grounded, she's always there for me and I can't thank her enough for everything she's done for me.
Being professional means 100% is not enough. Number one, two and three in my life was chess. The reality for women is, when a child comes into the picture, priorities change.
But in 2002 I had a miscarriage, at 13 weeks. And funnily enough after that I had my best-ever tournament result, in January 2003.
If I get to tell good stories with good people, that's good enough for me.
I think when you get interested in antiques, the most frustrating thing is that books don't have enough photos. When you go to a flea market or garage sale, you see lots of things you've never seen before and you have no idea what the price is going to be or should be.
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