My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.
Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.
Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.
Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment.
So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not leave us.
The things about others that irritate, annoy, and unsettle us are the very things we have not accepted and embraced about ourselves
Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.
When the big things in our life start changing, we rely more heavily on small certainties to make us feel secure.
I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
All around us are complex people trying to live simple lives,” she said. “Wanting simple things with tangled hearts.
She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her.
Sometimes I think things happen for a reason... And I think if we're meant to run into each other again, fate will make it happen.
The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.
And I realized . . . just now . . . that God gives us the ugliness so we don’t take the beautiful things in life for granted.
It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!
Some of us -" She paused as she sought the words. " - don't die unless we want to. The selfish ones never do.
But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.
A smoke, a book, a cup of coffee. These are the little things that get us through this sometimes weary world and all the rainy days.
Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of vindicated my decision to leave in '87.
