I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows.
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Related Flat-out, the time I wasn't working I was spending with the kids and my husband. ADENA FRIEDMAN My hands. I'm constantly working on my hands. I'm constantly working on my ground game and c... BROCK LESNAR I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and ... FERGIE Hearing aids didn't cause any problem with my social life, my career, no problem at all, and I... NORM CROSBY My time is focused on family and work. I need to find a way to spend more time with my friends - and... DANIEL L. DOCTOROFF I'm never just on the couch. Being busy is part of who I am. But it's hard juggling my famil... ALEX MORGAN My husband is my part of my greatest joys, so it doesn't feel like work or like I'm balancin... MONICA DENISE BROWN I love working out but I really have more enjoyment cheating on my husband with other married men. AMY FESSLER As an actor, some of my favorite things to work on are night exterior scenes. Any time that we'r... TAYLOR KINNEY Every day is an opportunity to improve as a player. I try and do something new after practice, wheth... BOBBY BOSWELL I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock,... LAURA DERN All my kids have worked in the family business. I've been successful at that. My family knows ho... ALEX SPANOS I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more ti... CONNIE NIELSEN While working hard for my career, I looked after my family and have been there for my mother and in-... CHANDA KOCHHAR I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my car... JILL WAGNER I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I design... JANE SEYMOUR When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled... IMAN When I turned 30, I realised the value of time and with it, the other important things in life. That... RANI MUKERJI I don't think I have a sense of fashion. But I do have an aesthetic, which I feel is an offshoot... TWINKLE KHANNA I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stu... ALAN ARKIN One of my first jobs ever as an actor was working with Julie White on a sitcom called 'Grace Und... TOM EVERETT SCOTT I enjoy working with my family because when you're here we're working as a team. ERIC GOMEZ I am excited to run in the community where my wife and I work, where my daughters graduated and my s... TED DEUTCH It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I wa... GEORGE PORTER I would like to develop my writing skills and work on pulling my family together (to) create an albu... BRIGETTE BRANNAN My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother w... ANDREA JUNG I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace becau... JUDE LAW My favourite place is at home with my family. My career is really raising my children. I'm still... WITHERED HAND teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li... MY TEACHER The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was ... GABY HOFFMANN Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it w... KAJOL But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a... MARY TYLER MOORE You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination. CHARLES KEATING As an actor who has spent twenty years trying to crack America, the day I reached the 'Bloodline... BEN MENDELSOHN I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. ... GARY BURGHOFF The very few days of my life that i used in working in an hospital, changed my view a lot about peop... OLASOT You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination. CHARLES KEATING My time off is usually spent working out and getting better at football. When I come home and spend ... STEFON DIGGS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I think St. Jude helped me achieve some miracles in my life - that's why I wear the medallion in... AARON NEVILLE Being down there in that treatment facility, man, it just made me reflect on everything as far as gr... KOREN ROBINSON I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are lon... KATE MIDDLETON I tread on the m che' with my feet and I sometimes use my teeth, and of course my hands are always w... SHIRAZ PELED Everyday I'm at the gym and on Friday I'm working half a day with my dad and we're taking off to pra... JASON MICHAEL I still do work on my cars, but not nearly as much as I did last year, ... Last year I was almost do... JOSH WISE I'm adding moves to my post game. I'm really working on staying low. I'm working on my s... KRISTAPS PORZINGIS Lying about one's sexuality seems to be one of the ridiculous rules of what constitutes being a ... BEN DANIELS I love being around my friends and my family and spending time with my husband. I like being normal ... CARRIE UNDERWOOD Coming to the Hope straight out of college is the best move for me right now in my life as I am simp... KAYLA BURT I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for... COURTNEY THORNE-SMITH My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time. BEN MARCUS I've been working out a lot and doing all kinds of work on my perimeter and inside games. It's all p... ALAN WIGGINS It's a time to reflect and appreciate all the contributions that others have made to my career a... KAREN KAIN I worked with Jackie Chan for a long time, and seeing how much pain he's in, I realized that tha... DANIEL WU So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude meda... AARON NEVILLE I have a passion for animals and spend a lot of my spare time working with various organizations her... LARA JEAN CHOROSTECKI 'Grey Gardens' consumed my life for over two and a half years. It really takes its toll on t... CHRISTINE EBERSOLE Balancing family and work is a top priority for me, and I treat it as such. Meaning, I actually put ... BIZ STONE I was 24 years old and stuck in a strange place with two boisterous little boys, and my husband was ... LEILA ABOULELA The dot stands for 'detail' - always be paying attention to detail. I feel that people take ... ANDERSON PAAK Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once y... KAJOL I guess my biggest goal would be just to work on the things I've been working on and feel that much ... DAVID DUVAL I chose to work voluntarily. Not working was not going to change (the pain). I had to make a choice ... WENDY HARRIS Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and sp... CHRIS BROWN When I am not working, I go to the movies, text my friends, my thumbs are faster than lightening on ... ARIEL WINTER I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my paren... BONNIE TYLER I loved working with Meryl Streep twice and I've gotten to work with my friend Liam Neeson on se... AIDAN QUINN I can't express how happy I am that my former coach, Dan Gable, has decided to join my staff at Iowa... TOM BRANDS I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades, that has been a major focus of my ha... HENRY CLOUD I was looking for the meaning of life when I was in college. And my deal with my dad was as long as ... JOHN MACKEY I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy ... RACHEL TICOTIN My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the... CRAIG THOMPSON I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company. JOHN VAN HAMERSVELD I've spent so much of my career working intermittently, being busy and then with large swaths of... STERLING K. BROWN There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN My grandparents and my mom prayed the rosary a lot, and later in life, I had a priest friend of mine... TIM RYAN I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now ... TAYLOR HAWKINS My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, m... SIRI HUSTVEDT I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father tim... FLAVOR FLAV I started playing golf when I was just out of college and starting my career with KPMG. I took a few... LYNNE DOUGHTIE I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden. JACLYN SMITH To be honest with you, my physical state is usually dictated by the project I'm working on at a ... MATT BOMER One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I... ANNA POPPLEWELL If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get int... SOPHIE KINSELLA Most people are balancing 10 or 20 priorities. I have two. My family and my work. DAVID BOIES My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car. ADAM FERRARA On days when I do not work, I am working on my image. I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointme... LINDA EVANGELISTA My career had zero to do with whether or not my husband also worked. It had everything to do with pe... GRETCHEN CARLSON I love working out, but I need my brain to be someplace else as my body does the work. JORDANA BREWSTER Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family wor... BERNARD ARNAULT I just like working on bikes, working with my hands. This is sort of a dream job. MIKAL WILSON I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects tha... BOB ODENKIRK Politics is a rough trade and I can take it with the best of them. I have demonstrated I am capable ... IAIN DUNCAN SMITH I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that... BILL GOLD it changed my writing life, and here [my daughter and I] are, working on something together. ANNE WALLACE My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and... BENICIO DEL TORO That is the difference between St. Jude's and all other children's hospitals. The other hosp... MARLO THOMAS When I go back to France now I spend all the my time with press and sponsors. I do not have a lot of... JEAN ALESI My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam... FRANCESCA ANNIS It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister... PENELOPE CRUZ
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