A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear but not that thing.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund....
You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
You can map your life through your favorite movies and no two people's maps...
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are...
Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead sometimes you're behind.
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Here's a thing about the death of your mother or anyone else you love: You...
I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's...
There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where...
You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is...
I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of...
Don't fear anything for your letters they are burnt one by one and I hope...
I think however that so long as our present economic and national systems...
Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home or we...
I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women....
What I think we fear is rapid pronounced and uncontrollable changes to...
Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting...
When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did you fear that you'll...