#try

I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this age; I'm going to have a kid at this age' - and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don't want my life to be based on that. ↗

— Julia Stiles

#based #caught #find #fit #get

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it. ↗

— Cathy Freeman

#back #been #beyond #bit #challenge

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference. ↗

— David Friedman

#everything #i #into #make #make a difference

In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure. ↗

— David Friedman

#becomes #i #impure #industry #large

Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#both #countryside #ever #had #home

I don't apologize to people who try to intimidate. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#i #intimidate #people #try #who

We were a country band with a social conscience. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#conscience #country #social #were

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#because #book #create #different #effects

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#figure #find #i #i am #i think

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life. ↗

— Peter Gallagher

#about #accepted #acting #businessman #degree