You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.
I mean, I love action films, you know, good action films.
In this digital age, it doesn't really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there are opportunities waiting to be grasped by entrepreneurs.
We watch a lot of Discovery Channel, shows like 'The Biggest Loser' and even 'Amazing Race.' You learn a lot about the world, it's fun and nobody's interested in beating anybody down. And then the opposite: I'm a huge fan of 'Survivor.'
The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don't need them to know about you - you need them to know about your work.
You're not going to find me cringe from my record.
People only see you as your last role, so it's hard to break out of that.
I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from.
When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.
I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it's not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way that serves other people. That's a high calling and it's a great responsibility.
Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
I hope I'm Jessica Tandy, you know. I hope I'm onstage, and I fall over at 85 or something with everyone applauding thinking that it was a joke, you know, 'There she goes again,' and I'm just gone. I've gone to Heaven.
You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.
I go to South Dakota for ceremonies when I have the time. And when you learn what the Indian peoples have gone through to hold onto their culture and traditions... wow, it's an amazing story.
If the enemy could only know that Marcus Garvey is but a John the Baptist in the wilderness, that a greater and more dangerous Marcus Garvey is yet to appear, the Garvey with whom you will have to reckon for the injustice of the present generation.
My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.
I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
The tragic thing about the Internet is that you can find out way too much, way too quickly.
Although I would like the negative balanced with the positive, what really bothers me is if it's not real. You can add humanity to what might look like a negative role.
It's important to keep on keeping on, to feel good about yourself and be happy with who you are.
In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.
You go to a contest, and it's like, 'OK, I'm here for two weeks. All my energy, time, thinking, and everything is going toward that.' Everything you're doing is building toward the score at the end.
The more pressure you bring from without, the less internal pressure is necessary.
You can't take people's opinions personally. Usually what people say about it is a reflection of them own issues.
I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
Working in the digital domain, you're using approximations of things; the actual sound wave never enters the equation. You deal with sections of it, and you're able to do so much more by just reducing the information to a finite amount.
With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.
The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.
Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.
It takes such a commitment of passion and energy and time, and it's all so encompassing to direct that you've got to see the bullseye, and you know you can hit it - or at least get awfully close.
Inviting artists to do something, you want it to be a place where they're going to feel challenged and excited and that will maybe open up some new doorway in their own lives or their own creative practice.
The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
These days you can play almost 100 Test matches in six years.
