Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a blank sheet of paper. I was always trying to second-guess myself, to be what others wanted me to be. ”

There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it. ”

There are classic horror films that, if you are a human being in this world, you have to have seen. They've become a part of our culture. ”

I go where the good work is being done. ”

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive. ”

I really hate to get old. I don't talk about it much. And sometimes at night I wake up and I have nightmares that I know how old I am. ”

My wife, she is so good. She was a famous singer - had a show in Carnegie Hall, did a big city tour for RCA. Then she made the mistake of marrying me. The next year, another tour, but the third year, she had Mario and said, 'Either I'm a mother or a singer.' ”

No one could touch the home cooking of an Italian woman. French women, they are very intelligent, very sexy - but they don't like to cook. ”

I watched 'Holiday' in college, and that was when I had my first fantasy of being Katharine Hepburn, standing at the top of the staircase in a huge Hollywood mansion. ”

I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist. ”