I did 'Little Dorrit' a few years ago; I really love doing period dramas. It's stuff like that I really enjoy watching.
When we're being grateful it means that we're acknowledging that life is a gift, that life is a blessing, that this body is only here for a short period of time and it really shifts the whole internal landscape of the mind and it puts things into perspective and it allows us to get our bearings. To get a firm footing in what's real, and then go from there.
I have felt for a long time that I want to return back to being a singer-songwriter for a period of time. I will go back to Broadway. But I want to make the right choices about why to go back and when I am ready to go back.
Some period of time later you look up and say, "That concern was right on the mark; it happened exactly as I thought it would. " So that's been really helpful to recognize.
I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period.
The danger of our culture. - We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.
You don't have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich - just a bit better than average over a long period of time.
I prefer her [Nina Simone] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.
The period of meditation is a time when we go back to the source. We go back to what we were before we were born.
The heart of childhood, from seven to eleven, is the critical period for bonding with the earth.
Sometimes, recently Israeli-Palestinian conflict is indeed a clash between wrong and wrong. It is not as simple as fascism was. Every decent man had to be against fascism, period. It is not as simple as apartheid or colonialism or racism or misogyny. It is not simple because the Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they are absolutely right about this. It is a tragedy of two peoples claiming the same very small country, about the size of New Jersey.
I think they ought to be treated equally. Period.
I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I should have permitted myself to remain there. My honors are misunderstanding, persecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.
First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America's schools, period. . . with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained se curity personnel.
For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living standards.
I hate grunge. It was the worst period of my life.
When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.
Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.
I went through a period when I was about 19 where I'd go tanning with my boyfriend in tanning beds. Yes, this was actually a thing we used to do together. They were not my friend. I had no idea what I was doing. We all went in the early 2000s. Needless to say, I don't go anymore. If I need a quick fix, I get a spray tan - though it's never a good idea for me with my fair skin.