Most women would say they relate to 'Hedda Gabler' - there's a part of her in them. Ibsen was writing about a deep ambivalence that many women feel about domesticity. I think about myself and friends of mine - we have some of Hedda's qualities and tr...
In your hands The dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive. Who would argue otherwise? But now, after years of consideration, I am getting beyond that. What about the sunflowers? What about The tulips, and the pines? Listen, all you have to d...
For me- and for everybody else, probably- this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions I'm having, too, are all first-time feelings. If it were something I'd experienced before, then I'd be able to understand it more clearly, but this is...
When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows. You laugh hard every day. You think about the future and read about glo...
Shelby Carpenter: I knew there was something on my mind. Ah yes, will you dine with me tomorrow night? Laura Hunt: Yes. Shelby Carpenter: No, it's not that - it's the next night. And what about three weeks from tonight? And all the nights in between?...
Alvin Straight: You don't think about getting old when you're young... you shouldn't. Cyclist #1: Must be something good about gettin' old? Alvin Straight: Well I can't imagine anything good about being blind and lame at the same time but, still at m...
You know, one of the interesting things you find about writing fiction is that any fiction you write has to be political. Otherwise, it goes into the realm of fantasy. So like, if you write about a woman in America in 1910, if you don’t write that ...
"Almost" and "about" prevent lying.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.
In business it's about people. It's about relationships.
I don't know anything about life, but everything about cinema.
It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.
it's not all about the direction,its about the destination.
Life is about more that quotes about life
Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power.
There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.
It is interesting that the U.S. has this very strong proportion of the population that rejects scientific conclusions about the age of the Earth and about evolutionary relationships between species, including humans.
Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.
Politics: Lies about the truth, or the truth about lies?
