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But when I do book signings and personal appearances, the audiences are mostly white. Growing up here, I expected that and understand it. Black audiences won't come out for a white writer for the most part. It really is just a fact of life.
Sep 10, 2025
For those of you who don't know who I am, I played Natalie on The Facts of Life.
hat's just a fact of life. So I've taken music into my life and it's gotten into my blood to the point where even when I am alone, I've got something to hang onto.
The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become. It’s just kind of like the facts of life; the practice makes perfect thing. Keep your fingers crossed, start from the bottom and work your way up.
It's that kind of choice of a woman - to go with the nice guy or the nasty guy. And I think that all women get to make that choice and they always go for the suave, nasty guy. It's a fact of life.
I was fired from my own television show, CBS's Family Law. It was the second time this had happened in my career, the first being when I was fired from The Facts of Life. I had been grateful to work in TV for so long but had always been chasing a career as a feature writer-director and had completely failed.
The principal fact of life is the free mind.
People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.
I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the unromantic scientific facts of life, I find it hard to delude myself about feminine frailty.
It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all.
American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.
Life is series of opportunities. The often neglected fact of life is that opportunities multiply as you take advantage of them.
If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.
Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.
What masquerades as sex education is not education at all. It is selective propaganda which artificially encourages children to participate in adult sex, while it censors out the facts of life about the unhappy consequences. It is robbing children of their childhood.
The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.
I believe nostalgia has many appearances and that it's not just the privilege of adults. I think children too can have nostalgia. It's one of mankind's most shared emotions. It's one of the things that makes us human. When you live, you lose things. It's a fact of life. So it's natural for everyone to have nostalgia.
I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that pinched your feet were a fact of life.
The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.
So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.
Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow? . . . . I have been thinking much about pain. How could I help it? . . . . Sooner or later, regardless of the wit of man, we have pain to face; a reality; a final inescapable, immutable fact of life. What poor souls, if we have then no philosophy to face it with! This pain will not last; it never has lasted. I'll think about what I am going to write tomorrow-not about me, not about my body.
A problem is something you have hopes of changing. Anything else is a fact of life.
It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.
It's an important fact of life, war.
Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.
...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.
It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.
In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.
Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.
The fascinating thing about human beings is that they don't last, and everything eventuates, and everything is very, very brief. And even if you do manage to look reasonably well as you age, unfortunately you are attacked at every level by illness and so forth. It's a fact of life.
I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have.
I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have. The same holds true for families: It's not how many people there are in a family that counts, but rather the feelings among the people who are there.
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.
When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.
One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.
I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.
Sex is a fact of life...and while it may lead to abuses...no words need be spoken...for people to know that the subject is one pleasantly interwoven in all human activities and involves the very substance of creation itself.
It's a fact of life. Hearts are always hurting. And yet they still keep pumping.
The facts of life are conservative.
Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.
They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.
There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.
The facts of life are very stubborn things.
It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.
Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It's for the same reason why we don't like going to the doctor. The diagnosis and x-rays are too honest. This is what creates the perception that contemporary art is shocking or suspicious.
I learned my "facts of life" on toilet walls. I'd walk up in school bathrooms and there would be crude drawings and figures engaged in sex. That's how I learned.
By reeducating the mind, you can accept fear as simply a fact of life rather than a barrier to success.
Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.