Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

I was just very shy. I was never anxious to do talk shows, as I didn't know what to say. And I don't feel I have any inherent interest. But as I'm getting older, I feel I want to be able to share whatever I know if it means something to someone. ”

I'm often asked, 'What was, for you, your greatest film experience?' And it always comes back to 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' aside from being a film that really handled subject matter in such a brilliant, brilliant way. ”

I'm kind of lethargic in real life. ”

I guess nobody can teach you the knack, or whatever it is, that helps you come to life on stage. ”

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives. ”

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs. ”

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them. ”

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. ”

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. ”

I've never set a book in Europe. I've lived in Europe three times, but somehow or other it wasn't the experience that engaged me in that way. ”