We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.
I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.
People have become aware that way that we've been eating is making us sick.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
I started realizing I could be an example for women to not just be aware of breast cancer but to act on it, to make an appointment, to give themselves an exam.
At last the cold crept up my spine; at last it filled me from foot to head; at last I grew so chill and desolate that all thought and pain and awareness came to a standstill. I wasn't miserable anymore: I wasn't anything at all. I was a nothing-- a r...
But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this text, which otherwise never quite makes it, our relation is that of a structurally posthumous necessity. Suppose, in th...
The addict's reliance on the drug to reawaken her dulled feelings is no adolescent caprice. The dullness is itself a consequence of an emotional malfunction not of her making; the internal shutdown of vulnerability. Vulnerability is our susceptibilit...
We want not only life but an intense awareness of being alive. The large tendency of our mechanical and standardized civilization is to blunt that awareness by surrounding us with ideas and forms that require the lowest degree of consciousness. One l...
Yoga talks about cat-pose, dog-pose, camel-pose, monkey-pose, bird-pose etc. Why there are so many animal poses? Animals release their emotions and tensions by movements based on their body sensations. But our amygdala in the brain is carrying the �...
(March 2010 ) In terms of story, the only audience I have in mind is me. I’m very much aware that I can’t please everyone when it comes to story, so I might as well try to please myself. But in terms of communication with the reader, I am very aw...
The pioneer, the creator, the explorer is generally a single, lonely person rather than a group, struggling all alone with his inner conflicts, fears, defenses against arrogance and pride, even against paranoia. He has to be a courageous man, not afr...
Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.
It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.
Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.
This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the other kids.
