I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.
For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.
I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.
Youre supposed to remember, and still forgive.
And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing.
I want to find a way to reach young women emotionally and also to start providing clothing for them so that they can wear the same things their thin friends can wear. I really want to do evening wear and prom dresses for these girls.
And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.
How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?
I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.
I believe we can do much more to adapt to the structural changes in the global economy, get high-end manufacturing back here, set up clusters of economic activity where you have, among other things, continuous retraining of people well into their middle years so they never become irrelevant to the current job market.
The subjective actress thinks of clothes only as they apply to her; the objective actress thinks of them only as they affect others, as a tool for the job.