I am for making of terms annual, and for sending an entire new set every year.
I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.
A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.
My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.
I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.
I actually think it's helped me as a writer to have to act. It's only when you actually start putting yourself out that you appreciate the anxiety that comes with having to try to sell a line, or with trying to own a character.
I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.
And during the campaign of 1936, she writes that she and her brother would always rather be out doing things when they're sick, rather than take to their beds. And I think Eleanor Roosevelt always responded to pain by doing more, by doing something, by being active. And I think she just couldn't bear to look at her childhood grief. And she didn't.
Happiness was my choice, and though it is hard-won, I am the only person who can stand in the way of it.
There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies.
The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent.