Julie Payette Quotes

Well, anything can happen and it happened to me. I learned everybody has a story.

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our lives.

I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

The best place to find material is in real life. I've always maintained that it's not until the mid-20s that you have enough of a life to draw from. There's nothing better for a comic than to go through some bad stuff - and some good stuff, like getting married.

I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.

I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.

I try to think of it not as writer's block, but a time where you just need to live life and experience things so you have something to write about.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

As someone who has been both a full-time mom and full-time in work force, I know we all have valuable experiences that shape who we are.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

I feel like I've lived about three or four different lives.

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.

Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.