The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.
Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.
The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.
You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.
My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.
I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.
However, in my fiction, I want to give an even further warning of where we're heading. And so, in "Heartland," you have people selling off their topsoil, and an underwater oil spill that has lasted over three-hundred days.
Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.
Not uncommonly one hears some romantic young woman say, 'Oh, I would give anything to be a writer. ' But she would not; and 'anything' is not enough. One must give everything.
The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.