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I've always declined to speak about things I don't think are anybody's business, and what I always get from the interviewers is, 'Well, you know, we have to ask those things.' I say, 'Well, maybe you do, but I don't have to answer them.' ”
Write and create as much as you can, because if you're sitting around waiting for someone to give you a well-round, interesting, incredible role on a silver platter, you're going to be a real cute skeleton covered in cobwebs when that happens. ”
I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf. ”
I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well. ”
There's not enough talked about in terms of growing older. You start to lose your body. ”
I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful. ”
Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well. ”
Everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified 'top secret' when it's going on. ”
For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination. ”
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn. ”