You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good.

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

I live quite an unsettled life.

I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

There seems to be a sense of balance or equilibrium that nature attempts to achieve with the usage of cycles, leading us to the concept of self-organization and spontaneous order.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

I like having that juxtaposition where you can have a very triumphant sounding song and then throw in all this crazy imagery. That's part of the fun of writing, you know?

We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.

Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

Even if I screw up in my personal life, as long as I'm not destroying myself, I just think, "Okay, I screwed up." I'm not Mother Theresa.

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