Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Every month, every week, something new excites me. I'm finding my niche as to what suits me the best. I am a young girl, and if I am just running around in a jeans and a T-shirt, that's a lot of life lost. ”

A lot of women do stand-up as a gateway into acting, but I love stand-up, and to be a good stand-up, you have to go on the road a lot. It means going to places in America where they've never seen a Vietnamese person in their life. ”

I think I went through puberty really late in life or something. I always looked like a little, sad Thai boy up until I was 26. ”

There's a point at which we make our lives, but we also take the path which is given to us. ”

You never know what you're going to end up with when you sit down to write something. At the end, if it holds, it can do this multifarious thing - which is to open things rather than close them, to make them bigger rather than smaller, to cross those divides which we live every day of our lives. ”

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels. ”

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book. ”

How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.' ”

Anything in this life that goes against love, we all should fight it. ”

I've never been good at getting on people's nerves, and from the little quotes I read, it's like, 'You're not doing enough in your life if you're not making someone angry.' And I'm like, 'Man. But my life - I seem to help people get somewhere, so am I not? Should I be more aggressive?' That's the way my inside voice sounds. ”