“I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.”
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“I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could've done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice, it's alright.”
“I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.”
“Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.”
“Most artists I know had one person in their life who told them they were the second coming of the baby Jesus, and another person that told them they weren't worth anything, and they believed them both, you know?”
“I think a lot of us are multiple things that don't always fit together neatly in a bio box.”
“There is nothing more vulnerable than creativity. . . It's not about winning, it's not about losing, it's about showing up and being seen.”
“Shame: We all have it. It's that gremlin that says 'I'm not enough.' Or, if you're feeling pretty confident,...'ooh, who do you think you are?' Shame always has a seat.”
“Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.”
“I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.”
“I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.”
“If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.”
“Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.”
“I learned a great deal about myself, and it forced me to be introspective in a way that I'm not typically, but "reporting" on my own life became emotionally exhausting.”
“What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.”
“If I die unexpectedly can everyone just do the right thing and pretend I was a way better person than I am?”
“To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.”
“Not having all the information can make me feel vulnerable.”
“I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone.”
“I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.”