The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.
I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.
Everything either is, was or will be. Time doesn't really exist. It's just something we have made up that makes it easier for us to grasp the universe.
I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watch most late-night talk shows, it's as if it doesn't even exist.
The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say.
It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.
Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.
I don't know that I've ever been someone who's interested in existing on tour. I have a lot of interests and a lot of other things that excite me.
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.
Yes, I am the Olympic champion, but this is not the end of it. I want all the gold that there is out there, everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.
The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.
And one day they tell you that love doesn't exist between you two. And you start blaming yourself even after knowing that you've been cheated on.
The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist.
Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards
There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.
The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.
The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
There are perhaps opportunities for greater political cooperation, at least more cooperation than exists now. But there can be no cooperation in the field because every situation is different.
And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
