I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.
Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.
Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead and the BeeGees.
If you never lie to yourself, you'll always be happy with yourself, and eventually the person you wake up with and the person you go to sleep with is yourself.
When I was growing up, I said to my ex-girlfriend, 'I will not be successful until everyone in Holland knows my name.' And it worked.
When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.
You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.
I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.
I think there's nothing wrong with being fixated on superheroes when you are 7 years old, but I think there's a disease in not growing up.
It's better to shut up and give the impression that you're stupid than to say something and erase all doubt.
Believe me when I tell you that waking up by your side, is the best thing that could happen to me.
As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.
Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.
Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.
I've always liked simple. Growing up, I wore corduroys and Lacoste shirts, Maraolo flats, and maybe one gold bracelet.
When I awake thinking of dreams I slept on, I often wonder, if the dreams ever wake up thinking of me?
I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.
You're suspended sixty feet up in the air, you've been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head.
I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I'm not a gun advocate, but that's the way I grew up.
Dream big and never give up on those dreams. Who knows where they'll take you?
