For those trying to protect the past, it is a way of retaining power, status, money, a way a life, predictability, comfort, control, and a bunch of other things like that. It is a struggle against the inevitability of change. – Brad Feld
As a child, I was just never that interested in the lives of my favourite actors, like Cary Grant. I do wonder whether knowing too much about someone’s personal life interrupts an audience’s ability to suspend disbelief, to really invest in the characters. My preference would always be that people engage with the work. – Chiwetel Ejiofor
I’m learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I’m not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times. – Brie Larson
I’m passionate about people. I’ve spent my life in advocacy. People matter – whether or not we agree on the issue, people matter. – Ann Marie Buerkle
Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them. – Adam Savage
It’s really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don’t hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don’t do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working. – Amanda Seyfried
Humans are imperfect. That’s one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We’re on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life. – Branford Marsalis
I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go. – Anthony Bourdain
Africa is not fulfilling people’s hopes and aspirations. African leaders have not had an agenda that included governing Africa so that people would find their careers, their life, dreams and visions fulfilled here. – Ama Ata Aidoo
I think that when we wrestle with death… we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole. – Adam Duritz
The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together – in their sexual relationship. – C. L. R. James
If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults. – Confucius
How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on ‘Top of the Pops’ singing ‘Life on Mars.’ – Ali Smith
So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life. – Carrie Fisher
Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive… to live now… to have the courage to confront each day. – Bernie Siegel
I have had the most wonderful time on ‘EastEnders’ and I will miss you all. The show has changed my life and I want you all to continue the good work, because I’ll be at home watching you. – Barbara Windsor
Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don’t expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room. – Chinua Achebe
I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance. – Amanda Holden
It’s best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. – Anne Baxter
Have you ever played a video game that didn’t have escalating levels of difficulty? Well, life can feel like play, too, when we purposefully engage in activities that demand we test and develop our skills. – Brendon Burchard
I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I’m getting older, I realized that I’m walking even closer with my God. – Andy Griffith
There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole’s and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what’s been happening and at some point you have to make a choice. – Boris Kodjoe
In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films. – Alexander Payne
It will shock many – I’ve lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star. – Belinda Carlisle