Ani DiFranco Quotes
But what if no one's watching?What if when we're dead, we are just dead?What if there's no time to lose?What if there's things we gotta do,Things that need to be said?
Quotes to Explore
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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There's a particular style that is very Peru that you don't see anywhere else; it's got so many different imprints. When you mix Incan minimalism with the heavy, ornate Spanish Baroque, it is very interesting.
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The best place to find material is in real life. I've always maintained that it's not until the mid-20s that you have enough of a life to draw from. There's nothing better for a comic than to go through some bad stuff - and some good stuff, like getting married.
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Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
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Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning - like at 4:30 in the morning - you're going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.
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But what if no one's watching?What if when we're dead, we are just dead?What if there's no time to lose?What if there's things we gotta do,Things that need to be said?
