“It can be very dark. I turn the phone off and put the blinds down. I d...” — Brenda Fricker Quote

It can be very dark. I turn the phone off and put the blinds down. I do pre-record some good programs and I have my dog and I get myself through it that way. I don't want to be sounding kind of negative but it is a different kind of Christmas, that's all.

You have to be very, very tough and I got tired of being tough - it's not in my nature. I was constantly standing up for myself because you have to fight for your place, that's your job.

It's very easy if people are telling you you're good at something to get carried away because you can always be better.

I've lost a lot of faith in psychiatrists. None of them is going to advertise a cure that really works because they just want to make money out of you.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

I do use social media as a gateway into my personal life, but only to a certain extent. When I don't want to, I pull the blinds down.

Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.

Everyone is a bit nosey. It's like if you walk down the street and someone has their blinds open, you look in.

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.