Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions.
If it would destroy [a 12-year-old boy] to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls?
My liberation as a man is tied to your liberation as a woman.
Now I also want to say, without a doubt, there are some wonderful, wonderful, absolutely wonderful things about being a man. But at the same time, there's some stuff that's just straight up twisted, and we really need to begin to challenge, look at it and really get in the process of deconstructing, redefining, what we come to know as manhood.
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
There's a lot of sub-conscious stuff you may write but you don't then suddenly sit down and take out your analytical books and say: I'm determined to find out where this came from. You'd probably be wrong anyway.
I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.