It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
Patricia Heaton
Related Television is such an evolving medium. When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just s... CHRIS PRATT I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South... PASTOR MALDONADO It can be difficult to be subtle and not cartoony in prosthetics. But when you see characters like B... DAVID WALLIAMS I love touring. I can't wait. Everything is just normal when you're finally on tour. I think... ALISON MOSSHART I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like thi... PATRICK MARBER I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time ... VANESSA WILLIAMS When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an... CHRIS PRATT I don't think it's good to run on anger, but it's really great when that's the first... JOSH HOMME Anyone can wear glitter, even a woman in her 60s. It's all about techniques. Instead of applying... MICHELLE PHAN It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look ba... CAROLINE KENNEDY Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just m... VERA FARMIGA Yes, I'm having a baby. I think it's so hard as a woman to give yourself a break. It's g... BUSY PHILIPPS Athletes, like everyone else, at times take supplements but just have to consult your doctors and wo... VENUS WILLIAMS 'Just Can't Let You Go' is a song about passion. It's when you have such a strong pa... MANIKA When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That'... LEONARD COHEN When you can, it's good to make healthy choices. But, I also believe in balance. It's not ab... MIRANDA KERR Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in... MARILYNNE ROBINSON Touring is hard. It's really hard on the singer, especially, because your body is your instrumen... GLORIA ESTEFAN You are really just trying to work on fundamentals and even if you are winning 9-0 sometimes, like l... BLUE DEVILS When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and... BURNING SPEAR When you stand out in a small town or at work,or in your peer group, whatever it is, it feels really... KATHERINE RYAN It is possible to perceive your health as good in spite of what outsiders may objectively see as dis... DR. TRULS OSTBYE It's bad enough when people are comparing your movie to just other random movies, but when you h... JUDY GREER It's hard because people always say, 'Follow your dreams,' but it's not a perfect wo... STEPHEN COLLETTI There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much ... JEFFREY KLUGER I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outsi... ROBERT RODRIGUEZ Here's what I've learned about eating healthy when you're busy: It's all about prepa... SUMMER SANDERS There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there... IMRAN AMED My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's no... WILLIAM SHATNER When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but of... CLARE BOWEN Most moms and dads, they want to be good moms and dads. But it's an incredibly hard job when you... NICHOLAS KRISTOF When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passiv... HAMILTON JORDAN When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you shou... ALFONSO CUARON It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exa... SUSAN HAMPSHIRE They all focus on how we get people to save for disability when they are young and healthy. ANDREW IMPARATO My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can ra... HAILEY BALDWIN It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Brana... ANTHONY HOPKINS you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can... NED VIZZINI If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale. MARTIN FREEMAN It's hard enough to just be a good actor. When you're on set, there's everything going a... JAMES MARSDEN A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly fo... ERIC BRAEDEN That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enj... TAYLOR DAYNE It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, o... HARRIET HARMAN You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're... CALVIN JOHNSON There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough. DAVID MAMET If it's a very emotional scene, you're kind of relieved when you've done it, kind of spe... ROBERT DE NIRO When you do voiceover it's such a fun job to be able to do. First of all, you can do it in your ... KELLY HU When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps. DICK GREGORY It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no ... DAN COLEN In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and... TORI AMOS Just do it... that's all... no matter what, when and where... but just do it. DEYTH BANGER If you live in a family or have five roommates, there's some sort of reality check, but when you... CLAIRE MESSUD I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persi... SANFORD I. WEILL [Patricia Heaton from] Everybody Loves Raymond ... Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania. DAVID HUNT I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'... MADISON PETTIS I generally always eat what I want. I think when you work out a lot, you can afford to eat more beca... ELSA HOSK We really put in a work ethic that season. Sometimes I feel bad that we worked them so hard, but it ... BRENT LISKAI When you've seen a lot of bad stuff and just want to enjoy your life and be happy and have your ... BOB SAGET It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it... CHRISTINA AGUILERA Be all that you can be. You can be great. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I think when things get hard with your family, it's really easy to want to isolate yourself. The... DOVE CAMERON With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wrac... AARON ASHMORE The first lesson my kids got about the ocean was to respect it. You can never turn your back on the ... SUMMER SANDERS As an actor, whether you look good or you don't, it's still about what you look like: Whethe... CHERRY JONES You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job righ... ETHEL WATERS Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a bur... TAMMY BRUCE It's easy for the thought-leader and executive classes to embrace a 'do what you love and lo... ALEX PAREENE I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be t... AMY CHUA I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yoursel... SYLVESTER STALLONE It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've d... LAWRENCE KASDAN Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a m... CARL HONORE It's a disease we have that we think that everything is explainable. It's a merchandising id... STELLAN SKARSGARD Healthy marriages are the ones between a man and a woman because they can have a healthy family, and... BILL FLORES If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or... VITO FOSSELLA It's hard enough as a kid these days to feel normal and just try to fit in. To be a diabetic is ... JAY CUTLER I used to get very nervous before a concert. It's okay when you are in a band. You can kind of d... AGNES OBEL When you raise your voice in song to express what's going on deep inside of you, I think people ... JANE LYNCH When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you. CRAIG GROESCHEL It's all about the hard work, knowing your strengths and weaknesses. You work on what you know y... CASTER SEMENYA Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it ... BAZ LUHRMANN I'm just saying the producers and people who work on music are getting left out - that's whe... JAY-Z You can browse to your heart's content but it's hard work and not easy on the feet unless yo... JUDITH KRANTZ Your father tells you a story when you're a kid, or your mother or your uncle or whoever it is. ... DAVID CHASE Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when tha... MARIA SHARAPOVA I'm trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it's n... CHRIS KYLE When you're a Chicago artist, to play Lollapalooza, that's not a normal thing. It's arti... CHANCE THE RAPPER When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thi... BARRY HANNAH We have obviously some very bright kids who can do some high-level academic work. But when it comes ... FRAN DUNPHY Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothin... PHYLICIA RASHAD You can't regulate what these kids are being exposed to on the Internet. It's so way out of ... PAMELA ADLON Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough w... INGA MUSCIO I do have moments when I feel insecure. I do have moments when I feel jealous, and that's normal... ANUSHKA SHARMA Generally, you want to raise capital either when you have to or when it's really easy. If the co... SAM ALTMAN It's great when you see things on a massive scale and you see these huge sets, but it's not ... ALFIE ALLEN It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in you... GABY HOFFMANN The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can l... JILL SCOTT It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN When a couple has an argument nowadays they may think it s about money or power or sex or how to rai... KURT VONNEGUT I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our st... KIM CATTRALL I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up o... MICHAEL HUTCHENCE
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PATRICIA POLACCO I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare ... PATRICIA POLACCO What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and ... PATRICIA POLACCO I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most he... PATRICIA POLACCO My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o... PATRICIA POLACCO I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in ha... PATRICIA POLACCO I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish livin... PATRICIA POLACCO Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older. PATRICIA POLACCO Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful. PATRICIA NORRIS I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're ha... PATRICIA NORRIS As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and ... PATRICIA NORRIS When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. W... PATRICIA NEAL I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde. PATRICIA NEAL Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gatew... PATRICIA MILLETT What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom... PATRICIA MILLETT I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivi... PATRICIA MILLETT I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court withou... PATRICIA MILLETT I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and... PATRICIA MILLETT While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity wi... PATRICIA MILLETT I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of revie... PATRICIA MILLETT My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas. PATRICIA MCCORMICK I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into ... PATRICIA MCCORMICK The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation. PATRICIA MCCORMICK High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French nobl... PATRICIA MARX New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce. PATRICIA MARX I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing. PATRICIA MARX I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I ... PATRICIA MARX I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alo... PATRICIA MARX Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name ... PATRICIA MARX Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is. PATRICIA MARX For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes. PATRICIA MARX I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and se... PATRICIA MARX I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality. PATRICIA MARX Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed. PATRICIA MARX The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism. PATRICIA MARX It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even fiv... PATRICIA MARX Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of ... PATRICIA MARX Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists cl... PATRICIA MARX 'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of char... PATRICIA MARX