There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.
We can live in fear or act out of hope.
Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to be at home, but I've got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.
Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.
I'll close my eyes, so I won't see, all of the love that you don't feel for me.
Those of us who grew up in the '50s and '60s, we had the dream that this could be turned around, and the earth could be back in balance, and that we could level the playing field with men and women and pay, and you know, minority groups having equal opportunity. We just magically thought this was all going to happen: we were going to have clean food, and organic this, and conscious that, and it just didn't happen.
I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
It's very hard to concentrate when your stomach's rumbling.
It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.
I'd say I've gone to grad school for comedy being on 'Community. '
The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.