Gail Godwin Quotes
The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.
Quotes to Explore
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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The main thing is to know something and to say it.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.
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There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
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I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
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When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.
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When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.
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I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
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I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking to each other, and I will just start playing both characters. I can't hear them, but I can see their mouths moving, so I'll just put words in their mouths.
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
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Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.
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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
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If you are connected to your own internal being, it is very hard to be screwing and destroying and hurting another human being, because you’ll be feeling what they’re feeling. If you’re separated, it’s not a hard thing to do at all.
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The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.
