Quotes About Challenges

We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance.

I was born early, along with my twin, and a lot of times, for infants, that can lead to learning delays.

I think about how best to live my grandmother's twin mantras that 'Life is not a dress rehearsal' and 'Life is not about what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.'

My two little twin brothers have autism, so I grew up around it and misunderstood it for a long time.

I have twin six-year-old boys. Have no mojo. The closest thing to a mojo I have is five minutes of peace.

We've never had twin infants on set in all kinds of different roles.

My father grew up very conservative, and he really had set expectations for what boys and girls were supposed to be like. So when I came out to him, that did not fit into his plan of what raising twin boys was going to be like.

Once I had left 'Twin Peaks' and started doing other shows and other movies, I kept running into, 'No, no, we can't do it this way. This is the way it has to happen.' I'm like, 'No. I've already done it, and it worked, so I don't understand what you're saying.'

Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing.

Conjoined twins simply may not need sex-romance partners as much as the rest of us do. Throughout time and space, they have described their condition as something like being attached to a soul mate.

I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up.

You can't live like a monk if you have two five-year-old twins. That ain't happening. Just the opposite, actually.

My children, twins who are three years old, they're awful creatures right now.

Every twist and turn in life is an opportunity to learn something new about yourself, your interests, your talents, and how to set and then achieve goals.

Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner's right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards.

Every week, there's a different twist and turn you're not going to see coming, and how you handle that is important.

When you have kids, things come at you that you don't expect and you twist and turn to sort it out.

I like real problems, the human condition - twisted, darker stuff.

Physically, it is very demanding as an actor, and I don't want to put a lot of focus on that, but I think it is emotionally and mentally a lot more... It can completely twist you... We abandon ourselves for days and months, and by the end of it, we are twisted people which you make fun of.

I've realized I have to be very careful in what I say. I speak my heart out. Such honesty is not appreciated in the film industry. Instead, it is twisted and distorted. A lot of what I say is lost in translation.

To play these twisted, tormented characters is very draining. You have to sit in the pocket of that character for the duration of the shoot, which is normally an average of three months, and that can be taxing!

I've had my fair share of words being twisted and articles being sliced and diced.

My melons are twisted every bleeding morning at about half past five when I'm up with the little ones!

I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.