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...thing that's been written ever since you started this series is that your work is too optimistic. And your response has always been, "So what...
...analogy of which I have no actual knowledge - namely tightrope walking. I have never walked on a tightrope, and indeed know nothing about it. But I imagine that tightrope walkers don't actually look down while they're doing their thing, they look ahead, which is the sort of approach I take. If you look at what my commitments are, I'm doing either four or five books a year, which is breaking all the rules of publishing. And If I stop to think, "Well my goodness me, what am I going to do," I would fall off the rope...
...What was Jerry Seinfeld like as a boyfriend? Oh God, it's so long ago! We had a really fun, happy time. We dated for less than a year. We had a really great time. The thing that always stands out to me about Seinfeld that I'm just blown away by is he's the most together person I've ever met who has not had a day of therapy. It's staggering because he's so together and very sage. He's a great person to ask advice from, be it personal stuff or career, because...
...made a very late-in-life decision to adopt. I was 50 when we adopted him, and Laurie was 43. I have to say that it's awfully strange to get Parents magazine in the mail along with AARP magazine, but it has really been an amazing thing. I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it. But I like the surprises in life ... I never thought about having kids at 30, but I think I'm a much better mom now at 52 than I ever thought I could...
...sale of a cup of coffee seems like a meaningless thing, but experts report that more than 110 million Americans drink it and total national consumption is more than 300 million cups a day. Part of the reason that so many people pick coffee over other beverages is the health benefits. Medical experts say that modest consumption has physical effects that range from slowing cognitive decline in the elderly to an improvement of the level of serum cholesterol in the blood. But, it is more likely that coffee is attractive because it is a legal stimulant, a drug without...