I don't do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life. Rihanna controversylifelive Change image and share on social
I have had big relationships. Three times in my life I have felt a special connection, but people talk about looking for love as if it's just like walking into a Starbucks and buying a coffee when you feel like it. It's rare, that special connection. Cherie Lunghi bigbuycoffee share on social
It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live. Robert B. Parker lifelivemacdonald Change image and share on social
I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.' Karen Abbott 20thalgeramerica Change image and share on social
My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax. Susan Hayward brooklyncallchildhood share on social
My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her. Jacob Rothschild admirerartbell share on social
Passion moves freely across borders, speaks every language, and flourishes in every culture. The movement of passion is the most gratifying satisfaction in any moviemaker's life. Saul Zaentz bordercultureflourish Change image and share on social
I work to live, not live to work, so my head's at home, not in some showbiz life. Stephen Graham headhomelife Change image and share on social
The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is. Pat Metheny attentionfabriclife Change image and share on social
The best place to find material is in real life. I've always maintained that it's not until the mid-20s that you have enough of a life to draw from. There's nothing better for a comic than to go through some bad stuff - and some good stuff, like getting married. Jeff Dunham 20sbadcomic share on social
