Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
Film is an itch I have yet to scratch.
A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home.
Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down.
I was never pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I was never quirky enough to be the quirky girl. Boys didn't look at me in high school and think I was the pretty girl.
But people are going to say what they want to say. I know who I am, and I'm not perfect.
I need some me-time. I have to remember to rest, because I have a natural energy and I don't want to burn out.
I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.
You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you
But this is what I know about people getting ready to walk of the edge of their own lives: they want someone to know how they got there. Maybe they want to know that when they dissolve into earth and water, that last fragment will be saved, held in some corner of someone's mind; or maybe all they want is a chance to dump it pulsing and bloody into someone else's hands, so it won't weigh them down on the journey. They want to leave their stories behind. No one in all the world knows that better than I do.
Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?