Jacky Rosen Quotes

I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir.

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

I have regrets, but you live and learn.

When you look back on anything in life, hindsight being 20/20, some things you'd like to have done a little differently.

Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

I have stacks and stacks of journals. I'll change the names if I ever decide to publish them.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.'

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. I wouldn't say musically, though.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

I think every one of us, in life, have some sort of moment that has happened that we wish we could have done differently or that we wish could have had a different outcome.

There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.

I don't think I could give advice to my younger self because she probably wouldn't listen.