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I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.
People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
Although I love snow, it messes things up terribly around Seattle, with all of our hills. I worry about my loved ones driving.
How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.
Being bipolar is a huge exaggeration of your emotions. You can be pretty high and also terribly low, so I've been through it all.
Yevtushenko is a high member of his country's establishment, and he lies terribly about the United States to his Russian readers.
My mother was terribly important to me, and I know how much I yearned for her in my youth, but I don't think I truly trusted her.
Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.
There's something terribly solitary about working in movies and television, and in New York, so much of the theater is showcasing.
I am very shy. When I go to a charity ball, I don't mind if people look at my sleeves. I mind terribly if I have to say something.
That's the joy of acting, to bring something to it. That's what makes acting exciting. Just saying lines is not terribly exciting.
When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.
I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries.
Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.
The thirties were troublesome in Belfast, and then of course there was no work for people, and it was terribly religiously divided.
My kids completely understand that I may be on a huge show or in a big movie, but most of the time, they are not terribly impressed.
Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
I'm not studious at all. I'm really far from that. I have been better at everything else. I find school terribly tiresome and boring.
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.
The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.
The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.
I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
I know that some actors take acting terribly seriously. I take it seriously in that if someone pays me to do it I know I have to deliver.
I am terribly interested in the paragraph: the paragraph as an object, the construction, and the possibilities of what a paragraph can do.
Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.
I'd love to have been in things like 'The Jewel in the Crown,' but of course they're terribly old English. I can do that. But I'm not that.
I was terribly gawky, too goofy to become a high-kicking cheerleader, with stringy brown hair and bad posture. Definitely nobody noticeable!
I have three tank tops which I wrung terribly, fixed them many times. I had people rip them in the ring and swear at them, and I'd fix them.
I just find that you can become a very boring person living in L.A. I tell you, living there on a day-to-day basis is vacuous: terribly fake.
As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.
Being single, I thought would be fun, but it is terribly boring. And I am a romantic, but only when I am in love. I can't force it otherwise.
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
I don't want to be known as 'oh, Dervla, when she's on stage she's very good but she's terribly dreary', or 'another heavy night with Kirwan.'
Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.
We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There's something terribly brittle about it.
People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.
I used to have a private... life. Now I dont have that... I have no freedom. I miss my normal life terribly. Its a prison-like life I'm leading.
I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.
If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.
Being shoved into the top-40 scene was an unusual experience. It was great I'd become accessible to a huge audience but not terribly fulfilling.
Acting is a trial-and-error business. Every actor has a few movies on their resume that they're not terribly proud of, but that's how you learn.
A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
Clothes were terribly important in the '20s. They really were an arbiter of who you were and how much money you had: an indicator of social status.
Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly.
I'm not terribly focused on whether I even could ever become the Leader of the Liberal Party or the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the future.