“I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.”
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“I'm more concerned with the work people do than their gender. When I was younger, I was pretty judgmental. Things had to be a certain way. Now I just want to see the work. It doesn't matter who does it.”
“The bible is very resonant. It has everything, creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the bible and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. Of course there are stories that are still relevant and inspiring; lessons that need to be taught over and over again. And they give people hope.”
“I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are.”
“I realize that people need something to believe in.”
“I can't bear working with a click track, we're not click track people. But for "Mercy Is ..." we all got in one mind because the song is delicate; it's not a song that showcases a vocal or some virtuoso.”
“People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.”
“Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.”
“I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about her self-publishing success.”
“I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, "Where's my car?"”
“I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.”
“My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs.”
“I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to communicate with everybody; I'd like to do something universal, I'd like to have the hit record of the world. But that's not the same as being equal.”
“I liked being on stage, I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.”
“I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.”
“Of course, people say maybe there are some self-published books out there that shouldn't be out there. Well, it's the same with conventional publishing.”
“With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This seems to be a significant problem. What can be done that hasn't been done?”
“I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.”
“... people in the newspaper industry saw the web as a newspaper. People in TV saw the web as TV, and people in book publishing saw it as a weird kind of potential book. But the web is not just some kind of magic all-absorbing meta-medium. It's its own thing.”
“With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.”