When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.
I'm the person that I always was, but in terms of how I approach my living, I'm not the same person at all. At all. I've buried a child, I've ended a marriage, and the grandson that I was raising is now grown. My family has totally shifted.
Evil is a sucker for solidity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies and balanced sheets.
Didn't know until my rookie year you could buy chicken parts separate, like drumsticks and thighs and breast. My granny always bought the whole chicken and cut it up.
My granny was always mourning about the fact I wear dull, stained jeans or don't brush my hair.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had that creative side to me.
I studied graphic design originally. I used to like drawing, and I was quite into technical drawing. I was always interested in the visual medium, but I thought I was going to be an architect or something like that, but it's quite a lonely job.
I've always been a big fan of utopian, future, new-world stories - 'V For Vendetta,' comic books, graphic novels.
I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.
I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album.
There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.
I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
I gravitate towards monochromes. I always sort of either wear white or black or cream. I really like wearing colorful things as well, but I'm a sucker for cream-colored.
I'm always keen to head to where the greatest gravitation pull is tugging me.
Why do guests always end up in the kitchen at parties? Is it a social phenomenon? Some strange gravitational pull? I don't know, but one thing is for sure: If your friends are going to congregate in your kitchen, you'd better make it as nice as possible.
I always knew I'd keep at it with the plodding doggedness that I used to master lump-less gravy and wriggle out of fitness classes; I always knew I'd get a zillion rejection slips. I figured I'd write part time while working various full-time office jobs, and maybe, maybe in my 50s, I'd be able to quit and try writing full time.
