A perfect day is when I can sit outside and listen to an audiobook and watch my family walking around.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 30 September 2015 source ↗
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A perfect day is when I can sit outside and listen to an audiobook and watch my family walking around.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 30 September 2015 source ↗
To survive from an impossible condition.
Late one Sunday afternoon, my three-year-old granddaughter, out of the blue, took my hand and said she wanted to whisper something to me. Could we go for a ride around the block before we all sat down for dinner? Just the two of us? Holding hands as we walked to and from the car in the driveway: Bliss.
My family. Together in a room with a sax, a piano, and a Ping-Pong table.
Probably being granted all-access to a Disney theme park with my husband, David, and a group of close friends—and just us—while we wandered and drank tropical tiki drinks. No judgment, no lines, no bad weather, and no hangovers. Oh, and our twins would be there too, but only when they’re happy and meltdown-free. I guess the same would go for David.
When a person is judgmental without realizing that they are the thing they detest in others.
I can be a huge asshole, not very nice. Doesn’t happen very often, but when it happens, it’s not attractive.
Humor and honesty. Realness. No bullshit.
I would laugh more. I don’t laugh enough.
I’m most afraid that someday I’m going to be on an airplane and it’s going to be acting the way I don’t want it to.
Pope Francis. He’s going with the original program. He may not be perfect, but he’s trying.
Alfred Molina, Henry Louis Gates Jr., David Byrne, Jane Birkin, Elton John, Carly Simon
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