Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.
I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.
I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.
I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.
I want my son to grow up with a mom that he could see and look at her life with all the mistakes and with all the failures and all the flaws and say, "My mom lived an authentic life. That was the life she wanted to live. "
I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.
Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself - things could always be worse and they are for someone else!
Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
I love cinema. It is the most important thing to me. Life is cinema. It has been this way since I was a child of about 14, and I was going every day to see the movies.
The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back. ' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.