The more we mask ourselves, the freer we're able to be within ourselves.
My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I can express myself artistically.
Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.
One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.
When I sing or play music, I'm able to relieve myself of whatever it is that I'm struggling with.
If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
To succeed, you must be able to concentrate, and to know what to concentrate on.
Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.
Why are you so weird?" "Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-stitch. " "At least what I do is considered an art form. " "Yes, in ye olde medieal Europse you would've been quite the catch-
Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World peoples, control their markets, extort tribute, undermine their cultures, destroy their villages, steal their lands and natural resources, enslave their labor, and accumulate vast wealth.
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.
I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.
I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.
I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I don't feel I'm really right to tell that particular story.
I'm going to do whatever it takes to be able to affect people the same way I've been affected by the music I love.
We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that lead to confusion and misery in our lives.
Maybe you'll take the cash out. So a credit card company or a bank that goes into the business of saying we're going to be the broker, we're going to sell you a mortgage that you're going to be able to pay off, we're going to help you reduce your credit card debt, we're going to help you save for retirement, we're going to put you into mutual funds that have low fees rather than high fees.
You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.
I always act better when I'm able to curse.
Now is the time to know that God is able. To connect your current reality with God's present ability.