I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.

I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.

The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

I believe the experiences of life are more important than any film you make.

I wear sunscreen, and I don't smoke. I take care of myself. And I'm very proud to say that.

Breathe and don't try to be perfect.

I'm always happy to play the bad girl. I just get to have fun, and it's obviously all done with a smile.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Look back on Time, with kindly eyes -He doubtless did his best -How softly sinks that trembling sunIn Human Nature's West -

You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.

It is then he realises that certain things loom larger than forgiveness and reconciliation: memory, for one, and history, bloody history.

The images of things are not the things in themselves.

If I don't take a chance with Gavin Murphy, I think I'll always regret it.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people.

There are rhythms in the world waiting for words to be written to them.