“All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.”
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“If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.”
“Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.”
“Thursday? Oh no, it can't be! It's too gruesome.”
“I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?”
“Freshly brainwashed from rehab, I carry the bottle into the bathroom. I hold it up to the light. See the pretty bottle? Isn't it beautiful? Yes, it's beautiful. I unscrew the cap and pour it into the toilet. I flush twice. And then I think, why did I flush twice? The answer, is of course, because I truly do know myself. I cannot be sure I won't attempt to drink from the toilet, like a dog.”
“I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.”
“When I first thought of being a writer I had visions of stacks of books in stores with my name on them, that sort of thing. But I never imagined this would be the reaction.”
“My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.”
“A lot of being a writer doesn't have anything to do with writing. It's ironic - I have to squeeze the books in, even though that's what it's all about.”
“There's a lot about being "A Writer" that has nothing to do with writing. That's one thing I've discovered. You've got to meet with the sales force, and you've got to have all these luncheons, and be gracious, and you've got to give a lot of presentations and you've got to give a lot of speeches, and you've got to be on tour.”
“A lot of the roads, bridges, railways, and such are built through the use of forced labor, and that is causing the people great suffering. What we put into this in the form of human suffering is not worth what comes out of it.”
“I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.”
“Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings.”
“Sometimes I didn't even have enough money to eat. I became so weak from malnourishment that my hair fell out, and I couldn't get out of bed.”
“Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.”
“What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.”
“I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor, a singer, an author, a filmmaker? I've heard such inspiring answers to that question.”
“I think it's a wonderful time to be a black woman who makes films. It's a good time to be an artist period. Traditional models of making and consuming art are breaking down and being rebuilt. I find that to be incredibly exciting as a filmmaker and film marketer.”
“I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who could've been more prepared for me? A publicist who's been there eight times. Getting there as a filmmaker was a completely surreal, different, unexpected experience.”