Black Elk Quotes
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.
Quotes to Explore
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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Rachel Yehuda at Mount Sinai in New York confronted us with her seemingly paradoxical findings that the levels of the stress hormone cortisol are low in PTSD. Her discoveries only started to make sense when her research clarified that cortisol puts an end to the stress response by sending an all-safe signal, and that, in PTSD, the body’s stress hormones do, in fact, not return to baseline after the threat has passed.
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Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.
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We ask to be recognized as men.
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Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.
