Don Winslow Quotes

I have a good family. I have good friends. I have people that actually care about my wellbeing as opposed to just work and just need me for work or whatever. Like, people that genuinely look out for me and my health, knowing how much work I put in.

I have a great support system.

It's important to keep the people who know you well around you. It helps center you.

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor to happiness. It is but honorary exile from ones family and affairs.

People care about others in their immediate network.

I'd like to think that even if I wasn't acting professionally, I would still be doing it for free. It helps me get through the day.

Couples need time alone to renew their relationship. They also need to sustain supportive networks of friends and family.

Our people know that if they are sick, we will take care of them. If there are occasions of grief or joy, we will be there with them. They know that we value them as people, not just cogs in a machine.

You shouldn't vent and open up to your husband, your boyfriend, your friend, because they're not professionals; they don't know the right thing to say to you, and putting them in that position is tricky. You have to look at it from their standpoint. It's so much pressure.

At the end of the day, what difference does it make if you made 10 films or 18 films? You made 10 films, but you had a great relationship with your kids, or at least you did your best not to screw them up irrevocably, or you made 18, and they don't return your phone calls.

Women friends get me through the bumps in the road.

Through my fans and my children, my wife, just good people, I'm coping.

If I've helped fuel the debate on loneliness in some small way, that is wonderful.

Friendships have been such an important part of my life both emotionally and logistically.

I have a lot of people in my life who support me.

Being able to go home to my kid is such a relief because he's such a happy kid. He balances my life out in such a good way.

Baboons who have friends do much better in terms of their physiology. And if that applies to a baboon, it could certainly apply for a human.

As prevalent as loneliness is, many people don't recognize that people that they know may very well be suffering from loneliness. It's important for many reasons, one of which is that it has a profound impact on health.

I've got a really tight group of friends from university and school who help me forget what I do and keep me grounded.

I take so much from my life. I have my shooting and my fishing. I have my working life. I have my relationship with my children.

Some people don't necessarily have family helping them or anyone, even friends, that care enough to help.

I think what's really important is valuing friendships and family a lot.

I know that if the people close to me are happy, I am happy, and I can do my job better.

I'm lucky I've got such a strong group of people around me - my friends, my family who I talk to every day, and it's important that I stay in touch with them.

I probably like being isolated more than many people do, but I'm lucky to have the friendship of many fine people, and they keep me from becoming very isolated. The world of my mind is certainly a populated and warm place, too. It's difficult for me to become too isolated with such resources.