Openness is the first step toward recovery. . . addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it.
Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system.
Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.
And I think it's true of any big organization. . . Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.
I need eclectic people in my life.
In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.
You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence. . . stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.
I've always imagined that one day the path of your life would unroll at your feet and carry you away from us. As it should, as it must. But I am glad that day is not today.
World Refugee Day is a reminder that there is no 'us' and 'them. ' There is only us, one human family, connected in ways we sometimes forget.
For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.
What really brought out the voice that I have, my soul voice and true voice, was really not getting any work and being very sad and being poor and having to sit with that. I think that's where the blues comes from.