My Way Quotes

Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more.

The L Word reaffirmed that good storytelling has a way of creating community. Fans everywhere have been connecting with each other online, in public and at home-viewing parties.

It's fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I've held a lot of tricks up my sleeve for a lot of years, and 'Ex-Girlfriends' is a good way to show another side of me.

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

Who said you had to fill his shoes? Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your own way and you'll be more likely to get to where you need to be.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

I always date younger men. For some reason that's just the way it's gone, because younger guys have always asked me out and I accept.

It's a good thing he broke up with you because now you're free for when the right man finds you. Your prince is on his way." "Right. I'm sure he was on his way but a truck hit him.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

A lot of my effort is to get people to talk about gender in a new way and to see that sexism and gender issues are so ingrained in us.

It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?

You're supposed to look a certain way when you're a celebrity, but I want to take care of my baby, and those two things don't mesh very well.

I feel lucky, though, because even when 'Alias' was popular, I was still sent scripts against type. I've never felt like the world only sees me one way. But yes, it's been really fun to be bad.

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

I think that when the world feels safe and secure, we probably feel more that way in our personal lives. What goes on in the world affects us, unequivocally.

The past always sort of haunts us and perhaps inspires us in some ways.

My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.

Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.

Today in America we are no more "post-racial" than we are "post-partisan." We have a long way to go.

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.

You cannot just work out and then eat poorly and expect to lose weight. It doesn’t work that way.

It's not a diet, it's a way of life that teaches you better skills. For years, I felt like I could never have ice cream, but now I can eat ice cream occasionally!

Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.

I'm going to do my thing and if you react a certain way - with pity or with anger - that's up to you.

People think because I'm shaped this way, I'm scandalous

I don't consider stardom to be anything related with me. I hope that the only way this business will ever change me will be (giving me) a good life.

I think that it's sexier not to show everything. I feel that people's imaginations can do way more.

A good chaos theory means you have a disciplined strategy behind the scenes of how you're going to roll out policy. And then you do it in a way that inflicts chaos on the press and your opponents.

I would rather lose than win the way you guys [Republicans] did.

Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience.

Do I think reality TV is going to be a path to politics in a significant way? Eh, I don't know. Trump is a very specific case. It's really gonna be hard to replicate that.

Everything Trump said and did was framed in a way to flatter him, and more importantly, flatter his worldview.

God gave us Jesus who is The Way.

I still feel the same way about God's Word as I did when I was 15 and lost my sight.

The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

The way I see it,” she began, “your mother’s devoted her whole life to you kids.” She said “you kids” in precisely the same tone I would have used for “you infestation of cockroaches

You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

Yoga is so much more about the instructor than it is about the practice itself. It's their point of view and the way they teach that makes the experience so special and opens things up for me.

Know your audience. If I don't share in a way that will be understood, I lose my ability to connect.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

We go for our own reality. I remember some of our guys saying it is way harder to make stylized art directed explosions of jade rather than a regular explosion of shrapnel.

The last few weeks, it was as if someone had taken his life to pieces and let him see the way it worked.

Do you know what it's like to like someone so much you can't stand it and know that they'll never feel the same way

A little knowledge can go a long way.

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's more interesting when I can do that.

On an emotional level, I don't want to be a guide. I want people to hear things and experience them their own way.

I remember being very, very aware of gender when I was really young. Not necessarily in a bad way. Maybe it's a little bit because I'm Norwegian and how I've been brought up.