Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.
My great grandmother was Chinese.
It is very important to develop the thing that you are naturally good at, that you are truly interested in.
If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.
Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system. So, it doesn't have the flexibility that it had in the '60s, '70s, '80s.
The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
Oh God," I said. "I'm Zmey's daughter. Zmey junior. Zmeyette, even.
It's good to let the other worries have a vacation and have different worries take over and then go back to the old worries.
You gotta imagine what's never been.
Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency and independence.