Julianna Baggott Quotes

Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.

Motherhood made me a better person.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I've found the exact opposite to be true. I find that I'm getting warmer, and that I'm more mystified by human interactions.

Does having a wife and kids change your act? Yes, but only in the best way. It gives you weight and authority. It also makes you closer to the audience because the audience is married and has kids.

I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.

I needed the 'Chuck' phase to appreciate the 'Captain Awesome' phase because otherwise I don't think I would have realized the flip side of that coin. I think I needed to see the world through Chuck's eyes before becoming Captain Awesome.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.

As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age.

It's amazing, all of the ways that having kids has changed me. I'm a much less selfish person because of them, and compared to who I was before, my patience level seems infinite.

With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview.

When you've had a chance to live some experiences then you can really write, and not having lived that much when I was young I didn't have much to write about. Now having seen life, the songs seem to come easier.

Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.

Motherhood has made me a much better person. I see everything from a new perspective - with a sense of wonderment.

As you grow older, you start looking at the bigger picture. You don't look at only yourself.

There are things that you write when you're 20 and there are things that you write when you're 40 and then there are things that you write when you're old.

I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it's something you have to carry with you, it's definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better.

Deeper things, heavier things happen to you as you get older and makes you more open.