Diana Gabaldon Quotes

I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.

I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.

I don't watch a lot of TV, to be honest. With three kids I have my hands full.

Half of the time, I'm walking around a construction site, then I'm transitioning into the evening, having drinks with the girlfriends or meeting with my husband and then racing back home to put the kids to bed. I have less time, so I'm a much more efficient decision maker.

I am so busy with my family and my serials I don't get time to watch other serials.

I seem to have a one-track mind. When I was having babies, I did nothing else. When I do pictures, I go all out. I really think it is easier to manage my seven. You can't afford to humor each one of them. They have to learn to do things when they are told.

It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

I do consider how I spend my time off carefully because I've got two kids.

After raising twins, you get organized.

I'm never late, and I love that. Because when you've got three kids and a life to be living, and somebody's half an hour late to set, you start to get a little bit like, 'Come on. Come on, let's get this done.'

I rarely get the time to watch cricket as I am busy with recordings.

It's just easy to be a mother and an actress in the same time: you just have to have a good organization, and everything is just fine.

I don't have much time to sit and watch a lot of TV. And I can't really binge-watch.

The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.

My household is, in a nice way, very busy.

My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.

By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

It's always 'busy' with four children; it's chaos.

New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is overtaken by the constant hustle to juggle a part-time or full-time job, a myriad of errands, a second or third gig of the day, and perhaps a child or two somewhere.

One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television.

These days, we have a million things to do and usually one day to do them in.

I don't have a lot of downtime.

A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

It's a crazy busy schedule, but I still have two hours a day for school because it's a priority.