If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
I never felt like a happy-go-lucky ingenue to begin with. And parts are written better when you're older. When you're young, you're written to be an ingenue, and you're written to be a quality. You're actually not written to be a person, you're written for your youth to inspire someone else, usually a man. So I find it just much more liberating.
People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
Where I did feel a difference is learning to just work in a different way so that your resources are not completely depleted so that you don't have anything to give to your child when you go home, and fortunately I've been working long enough that I know how to make that shift so that I don't compromise my work or compromise my relationships; not compromising parenting is really the biggest difference.
I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.
I have an antique console stand-up radio that I bought in a yard sale, that I've always half-believed has magical properties. It's in my office, and it has watched over each of the fifteen books I've written. It also helped me find my wife.
Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.