I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.
Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy.
People in day-to-day life tend to skim the surface of things and be polite and careful, and that's not the language I speak. I like talking about feelings, fears and memories, anguish and joy, and I find it in music.
You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.
I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry that doesn't speak to them.
I love cats. I have a lot of cat tales, ha ha, so to speak. A lot of my cats come to me. They show up at my house. I'm kind of a cat lady that way.
I get called to do a lot of labors of love... independent films on very small budgets. If I have the time and if the project speaks to me, it's better than sitting around, right?
I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
A therapist might suggest my generosity is a way of buying affection. But buying people's love has never been an issue for me. Generally speaking, I don't want their love.
When we were at the CMT Awards this year, Robert Plant was there. What an icon, I love him... But I can't go up and speak to him, because I don't want to seem like a goob.
In terms of men being feminist allies, it's just important to speak from your own place. I'd love to hear men singing about masculinity and the damage it does to them.
Speak life into your goals. Follow up with consistent actions, and at the appointed time, you would surely start to see them transform into realities.
Money can buy popularity, but it can never buy greatness. Your decisions and actions speak louder than everything else.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
in my experience, the words “now just calm down” almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to.
I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.
When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.
It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart.
