Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right. ”

Everything you do is about creating an experience in the viewer's head. If you're rude or irritating as a performer, then your magic is irritating. ”

The joy of doing the TV or something like 'Sacrifice' isn't really the process of doing it; the joy is going through this real-life experience. ”

Feeling we have to be constantly updated about the lives of our friends and that everything we say has to be out there leads to frustration, anger and jealousy much more than it leads to anything else. ”

I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives. ”

In real life, when I can avoid anything stressful, I do. ”

I don't want to be some extreme therapist. Although seeing someone's life change for the better is a really moving thing. ”

We go through life owned by the stories we tell ourselves which are often historic and charged narratives - things we've learnt since childhood that we don't even consciously realise are going on. ”

I had a natural aptitude for wanting to be the centre of attention and a definite skill for annoying people. ”

As a parent with a child with autism, it's been really tough to experience your child having autism. ”