Quotes About Reflection

I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward.

I find it more consoling to think of myself as little than to think of myself as big. I think I've gotten that from animals, particularly dogs. Dogs live such a modest life, and they don't live long, and the more you're around them, you kind of accept that.

I don't particularly fall in love with my own compositions, but some of them are decent.

I wouldn't be where I am today without my mistakes. Particularly my mistakes. Exclusively my mistakes.

I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.

I've always been the kind of person who leaves parties early to catch the last bus home.

I didn't go to parties or anything like that.

I'm not going out to parties every night.

I'm more disciplined now. The days of late-night parties are over.

I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.

I don't go out and go to parties and do all of that.

I don't go to parties in general.

Everyone knows that when you go through a divorce, it's a really difficult time for both parties and you've all - you believe, you both believe, individually, that you've put your best into it.

I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.

I don't even like parties.

I moved on from the whole 'Playboy' thing five years ago and really never looked back. I'm not one of those girls who goes back to all the parties and things.

I don't like to go out to parties or clubbing, and I kind of like my anonymity.

I really don't go to any parties.

'Man In The Mirror' by Michael Jackson - I used to have my very first dance parties with my kids to this song when they were little, even carried them around to it. It just makes you want to be a better person and be inspired.

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards speaking engagements and literary festivals and dinner parties. That has no interest for me these days. You get to a point where you don't care anymore. At that point, you can start to write.

Though I am probably guilty of indulging in excessive tribalism myself at times, I try to put partisanship to one side where appropriate.