I'm a little self-conscious about my body. I love to wear hoodies because you can get cozy and eat some food and your belly doesn't show!
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out.
Family - it's all about family. Families feeling safe and finding your safe place.
You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.
If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'
I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.
It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.
Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
It's very hard as a tall woman to remove your deliberately pronounced feminine aspects and look more masculine.
Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life.
It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
It's important to have balance in your life between work and play.
The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.
If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life.
You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity.
Doubt your doubts before you doubt your beliefs.
My duty is to make probable the improbable. If I tell you how I did it, I will ruin your experience.
When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person.
It's a very rare and fortunate position to be able to make movies with two of your best friends who happen to be really amazing actors and writers.
Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever.
Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
Let your performance do the thinking.
With fiction, I felt like I could bring to bear my full imagination, my entire heart, and so you feel very vulnerable. It's not your physical life, but it's everything else, so it felt like a lot was at stake.
Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.
I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing.
I think you have to feel comfortable with your car. You have to go into turn one, every lap, with confidence. You have to be sure of yourself and your equipment.
I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.
I was a lousy waiter, dealing with people and having people in your face like that.
It is strange when you're a loser in college, which I was, to then get your own show.
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.
