I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.
Dont just follow your dreams. Try to walk with them and overtake them as well.
Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child.
I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.
There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.
Sometimes in the course of human events it becomes necessary to kick some ass. Knock them down, but then extend a hand to help them change.
The insights we receive when going silent, it's our gift to ourselves. Returning and living them, sharing them, that is our gift to the world.
I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
I don't know if watching Chaz Bono will turn your kids into transsexuals, but I'm pretty sure that letting them watch Keith Ablow will turn them into assholes
I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.
I just think the more we're observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.
Sometimes we forego things not because we do not want them but because we can't afford to raise them at the moment
If I had a crush on a guy, my tactic was to tell them I had a crush on them. And they always thought it was super-cute, so it usually worked in my favor!
If you really want to be able to express what goes on with other people, you have to be able to look at them and empathize with them and not judge who they are and what they do.
If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.
You give them recommendations. You throw different angles at them where, hopefully, they can get something out of it.
Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.
It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.
In winter, you fed the birds; and in summer, do the same thing! In winter, you gave them bread; and in summer, give them water!
