Fashion is a reflection of our times. Fashion can tell you everything that's going on in the world with a strong fashion image.
This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world. . . To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods. . . It seems to me we owe the world--more, we owe ourselves--the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free.
it's always best to tell the truth.
It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.
I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.
Anyone with a show on T. V. will tell you it's backbreaking work. And if you have a big personality, which I have, and you're a perfectionist, there's going to be head-butting.
Let me tell you now a man of my position can afford to look ridiculous at any time.
All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its story. It wants to dissolve like a thousand writhing snakes that with a flick of kindness become harmless strands of rope.
Near the end I asked him one night in the hospital corridor what he thought was happening, and he said, "Tell her everything you haven't said," and I smiled with relief. "There's nothing," I said. "I've already told her everything.
Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect. We were enemies if anything. He hated me, and I knew it, and he knew I knew it. I didn't like him, but I needed him, needed him to tell me something that none of the others could or would.
When people ask me what really changed my life, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded on myself.
It seems silly, but it mattered to Gord Downie. I don't know if I necessarily felt like it had to be one or the other, but he really wanted that engagement: "If you think it should be 'the' then tell me why it should be 'the. ' " 'Uh, okay, well. . . ' He was really serious.
We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking at entry points to information and to the world in which the image was made.
Todd? Are you still there?" "Yeah. I'm just trying to think of a good reason to continue our friendship. " I grinned. "Jealousy is so unattractive Todd. " "It would help if you could tell me one thing that's wrong. One flaw. Bad breath? Warts? Some condition that requires anti fungal spray?" "Would chest hair be a flaw?" "Oh, yeah. " Todd sounded relieved. " I can't stand a chest rug. You can't see the chest cut.
But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will
Keep your guns on and don't let anybody tell you how to load your guns or bust ya guns.
As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.
A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.
What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?
Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works. '