He who will not risk cannot win.
If someone is expressing everything I am feeling at the moment, it's probably Jon Stewart. I hear him and think, Yeah!
We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.
Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough!
I'm not pert and perky anymore - when you're over 60, it's 'feisty.
I'm not a computer girl.
I would rather work less and do the things that I really want to do.
I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.
Whenever you undertake to do something, do it thoroughly or not at all.
If you're writing in the mainstream. . . Whatever that is - the norm. The norm is likely going to be funded because you're giving people what they're used to and what they're gonna get. But anything outside of that norm is going to struggle to get funded. The people who are not "the norms" deserve the chance to make art. I think it's great for all of us to consume all these voices, and that happens when you support these voices that need to be supported because they're not the automatic choice coming out of the gate.
Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.