I didn't ever feel close to my real family. I didn't feel validated; I never felt right because I was always wrong.
When we are looking for validation, that will never satisfy us. When we are looking for affection, for love, a little bit of that will be enough to be complete.
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
In a way, I'm like Will Rogers, never having met a man I really disliked. I'm not a vamp. I just like men.
You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.
I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.
Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return.
Life should never be viewed from the vantage point of achievements. It is total folly.
I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.
Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
My confidence level never varies.
The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.
Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?
Well, my parents were sort of packrats. They never threw anything away and, all through their time together, they stored away various things in a vault.
Most shows get dumped by the networks, do a couple of years in syndication, then they're in the vault. 'Mission: Impossible' has never been off the screen.
Successful writers say you should never work from a desk with a view, and the view I have from this one is a huge distraction. There's a garden bursting with fresh vegetation, and just beyond the high wall at the end of it, I can see the sign of the local pub across the road. Distractions, eh? I'm so easily led.
After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.
Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.
Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives.
It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
