"Before my death I hope to obtain my life."

-- Charles Bukowski

“L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.”
“We need to talk more openly about mentorships and sponsorships. Women don't get the mentoring, and particularly the sponsors, they need to succeed as much as men.”
“I feel a little uncomfortable about endorsements.”
“Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.”
“People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn't work at all to make a happy heart. It actually makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy world.”
“Once you go great, you never go good..You never go back, even if you could..”

Source : Song: Change Your Life, Album: The New Classic, 2014
“I'd heard that swimming feels so good when you're pregnant, and I love being in the ocean. I was even paddle boarding up until 17 weeks, but then my center of gravity and balance were completely off.”
“There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.”

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