Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.
But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.
The creative act is not pure.
In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.
If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.
It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.
Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.
The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.
Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country.
