Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.
It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.
I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.
I learned how to be more theatrical and have more fun, and to take a song and sing it over and over again in different ways, and make it different each time. I'm not just singing the song - it's this thing that's affecting me.
You get to a certain age and it really occurs to you: "My mother and my father will not always be here. My spouse or my girlfriend or boyfriend are here right now, but someday they won't be. " You realize that you need to like yourself.
You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you.
I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.
It was really the dream role, and when they first cast me, and I started playing Dolores [in the Westworlds] and all I knew was the analysis mode and her prairie-girl character, I thought, "Yeah, of course I can do this, and I'm good at it, but why did they pick me?" Not because I'm not capable, but I'm also kind of a tomboy, edgy, so I was curious.
The compelling truth of the Restoration is that the heavens are open. This Church is a Church of revelation. Our challenge is not one in getting the Lord to speak to us. Our challenge is learning to hear what He has to say.
It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.
If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.