“You choose happiness. You don’t wait for it to choose you.”

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn’t seem like such an elusive prize.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can’t manipulate fate.

New York City is my playground.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

I’ve always been told I have a giant placenta.

I’m not overly focused on being loved by everybody.

I’m scared of the unknown future.

I didn’t binge when I was pregnant.

I don’t think it’s good to constantly talk about your own weight and the fact that you look fat in jeans.

I love pregnancy and the bump and the whole thing.

You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.

Being with my family is my highest priority.

Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you’re not mad when you see them, you’re happy, and you get right back into it.

Food is not your best friend or enemy.

Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.

I like to look nice, but I’m not marketing being beautiful.

Wait not while your foe fits arrow to bowstring when you can send your own arrow into him.

I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.

She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.

I guess in society there’s no place for women in their older thirties. We’re supposed to go sit on a shelf at some point… and wait.

My father used to describe how he’d love going, early in the morning, out on a location and waiting for the trucks to arrive and the circus to come to town. That’s what it’s like, every day, when you’re making a film. It’s the magic.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.