The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
In a relationship I'm a very loving person, emotional and sensitive.
I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn't wait to get back to Ardmore.
It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it's really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I'm really interested in how we can adjust that.
We fall in love with one version of someone and we expect them to stay that way, but they never do.
In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.
I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.
One of the things we've lost as blacks in the United States is imagining different ways the world could be organized, how this country could be organized, how politics could be organized.
Progress was a labyrinth. . . people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it. . . the invisible king-the élan vital-the principle of evolution. . . writing a book, starting a war, founding a school.
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
A 'treat' is different from a 'reward', which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits.