Doris Lessing Quotes
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
Quotes to Explore
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I don't care about revenues.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I don't really believe in the auteur theory.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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When I was asked to leave, I left... Then they made me come back. I did, and I decided to enjoy it. It was one year. I care about everyone at 'Criminal Minds' but I knew, in my heart, I had left.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
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Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of mental crack-up. Yes, if we were childish in the past, I wish we could be children once again.
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Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.
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A car is thirty thousand parts you're putting together.
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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
