I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.
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Related My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love... EGON SCHIELE When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up.... DORIS ROBERTS My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfa... JOKO BECK My mom has this thing where if I'm doing anything doing dirty or crazy, she sniffs it out and ye... ROB HUEBEL I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, bu... ELIZABETH WURTZEL I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I sa... SALMA HAYEK I'm quite into fitness, and I have a fantastic personal trainer who knows me, knows my body, kno... POPPY DELEVINGNE My daughter is very strong-willed and is a great kid. She doesn't drink. She doesn't smoke. ... DOUG FLUTIE I think Charlize Theron is just as good when she is looking really pretty in a movie as when she gai... DIANE KRUGER My mother doesn't really embarrass me. Even when I was young. She understands my career. BOW WOW I've gone far in the movie business, but no matter how far I go, every time I pick up the phone ... DAWN STEEL Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Sarah Paulson doesn't lie. Like, in life. But she doesn't lie onscreen, and you can't ta... STERLING K. BROWN I always say God doesn't need me, but I need Him in my life to survive in this world and over te... ALBERT PUJOLS Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her. GAVYN DAVIES I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a rea... NATHAN FILLION My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It d... HOLLY MARIE COMBS The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as ... 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DIABLO CODY A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and... ROBERT J. SAWYER Cinema dominated the Fife coalfield towns. We lived in Lochgelly, but my mum was caught up in Hollyw... KENNETH CRANHAM I've only fallen in love once, and once was enough for me, but that doesn't mean my eyes won... KENDRA WILKINSON My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptis... CURTIS JACKSON Your kids can say some cruel things to you at times. For example, Nicole, Miles and Sofie are standi... LIONEL RICHIE There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'... ABBY ELLIOTT I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what... SACHIN TENDULKAR If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn... CHANNING TATUM Let's talk about Connie Britton, who I love. I don't know of a person who doesn't love h... MAGGIE CAREY It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL You won't see a picture of me rolling around in a gutter, but I sometimes have a photo taken whe... PIXIE LOTT It doesn't matter at all for me that I work in hospital or anywhere with limited space. Every da... YAYOI KUSAMA I've always been one to throw caution to the wind, and my motto has been, 'Never have a dull... CARLENE CARTER I've had some pretty awful jobs that I don't miss, like working on a nightclub door, or comp... LUKE EVANS My husband gets up at around 5.30 A.M., so I'll tuck him in around 9.30 P.M. or 10 P.M., and the... DIANA GABALDON I did photograph Angelina Jolie up in Vancouver when she was making 'Life Or Something Like It... DOUGLAS KIRKLAND Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an except... L'WREN SCOTT You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I us... J. TILLMAN I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy ... ZACHARY KNIGHTON She is such a doer, Cara - she is so ambitious. She has always known what she wants, and she's a... POPPY DELEVINGNE Being with Kyra is so natural for me; it's the easiest aspect of my life. I know that I don'... KEVIN BACON Wonder Woman isn't Spider-man or Batman. She doesn't have a town, she has a world. That was ... JOSS WHEDON My ma and pa are both very artistic, so I suppose it's in my blood. But my ma's the one who ... GREY DAMON My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and ... KARISMA KAPOOR Show me anyone, sexual or asexual, who isnt in some way fucked-up and Ill gag, ... The question ... DAVID JAY And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She's cranky sometimes, b... LISA SCOTTOLINE I think people are transient. Back in the early church, there was a 'stick and stay' mentali... MARVIN SAPP Don't expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madon... RICK ASTLEY I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I wa... LAURYN HILL I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't... P. C. CAST To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day... DANICA PATRICK When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'... JOHNNY CASH It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans... GABOUREY SIDIBE At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to d... SADIE FROST She's 32, and she has three children. She loves to be pregnant but she doesn't want anymore ... 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If one person doesn't get the... TOM ROBBINS That's for God sure. People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. TOM ROBBINS Their desperate craving for simplicity sure can create complications. And their pitiful longing for ... TOM ROBBINS Who knows how to make love stay?Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in B... TOM ROBBINS Logic only gives man what he needs...Magic gives him what he wants. TOM ROBBINS The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only ... TOM ROBBINS When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results... TOM ROBBINS To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. TOM ROBBINS The afternoon passed more slowly than a walnut-sized kidney stone. TOM ROBBINS Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef TOM ROBBINS Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. TOM ROBBINS I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys... TOM ROBBINS To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth w... TOM ROBBINS The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook th... TOM ROBBINS Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective. TOM ROBBINS Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when ... TOM ROBBINS There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this... TOM ROBBINS Conversation between a princess and an outlaw: "If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bai... TOM ROBBINS There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky ... TOM ROBBINS If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe eve... TOM ROBBINS Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential ... TOM ROBBINS But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for... TOM ROBBINS But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play i... TOM ROBBINS Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with... TOM ROBBINS I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know. TOM ROBBINS At the typewriter you find out who you are. TOM ROBBINS