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I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.
My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.
Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.
If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.
What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No one can tell you your own secret.
I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.
The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.
When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.
One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.
Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.
Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way more than they are.
Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop.
If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.
Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.
As long as we dare to dream and don't get in the way of ourselves, anything is possible - there's truly no end to where our dreams can take us.
Let's put it this way: I am confident that Schengen will continue to be defended. And when it comes to repatriations, we have the same opinion.
Always be suspicious of those who pretend to know it all, claim their way is the best way and are willing to force their way on the rest of us.
There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.
I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix.
There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappointment s.
Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.
A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.
I'll tell you the only way to survive: Ask God to place a semi-permeable shield around your heart: One that only allows what He loves to enter.
That's an interesting way to put it: an expectation of who you should be. More often than not, it's described as an expectation of who you are.
The more competition and the more voices - that's why I love bloggers and anything else the Internet can produce in the way of new news voices.
Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.
I've got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well.
I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.
I love L.A. I always have such a great time in L.A. The way I kind of define me and L.A. is the noise of the factory doesn't let me sleep well.
We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.
Sometimes I can't draw or take a picture of something, though, if the color is a certain way and the only way to see it is to see it in person.
Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.
The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I connected to that in some way.
Nothing was dirty. With Park. Nothing could be shameful. Because Park was the sun, and that was the only way Eleanor could think to explain it.
[My father] taught me (at least he showed me) a dignified way to be a former president is that once you're off the stage, you're off the stage.
At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.
I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.
So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.
But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.
There was a nice dilemma. How does one interject into a polite conversation, "By the way, in case you're ever interested, I do have a penise."?
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
In tension you cannot perceive; in laxity you cannot perceive. Only if you are intense and relaxed, you perceive everything just the way it is.
Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not talking about photographs.
I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.
There's so much one person can do, and so many ways they can help make a difference. It just takes one person to help someone to a better life.
The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.
The most effective way to build a brand is not by spending millions in advertising, but by finding a clever way to keep your name in the press.
It's so crucial to really get a good handle on what's getting in the way of the kid completing a homework assignment. It can be so many things.
I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.
There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.