“Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.”
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“Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible, you laugh. That, I think, is part of the Great Love.”
“I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.”
“The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think.”
“Naturally, if you love somebody, you do want to see their face every now and again, but that's not a condition of your love. People often get possession mixed up with love, and they say, "If you really loved me, you would call me." How - when life is going on? I think of you all the time, and the thought of you always lifts my spirits. But I'm not right at the phone!”
“Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.”
“There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.”
“Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.”
“I think a nap or a rest overnight is great. But who needs three days of rest? Please! The second day, you might die.”
“It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.”
“The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.”
“I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.”
“I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.”
“I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California.”
“Fear-bola attacks the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking. It starts with a low-grade concern about the two health care workers diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas and slowly builds into fear of a widespread epidemic in the United States.”
“Pretty much everyone I know, no matter what size, is trying some system. Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she's like, 'I could be another three pounds less; I could be a little taller and have bigger lips.' Where does it end? You just have to say, 'It's pretty damn good. I am right here at the moment and I'm OK with it. I've got other things to think about.'”
“The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.”
“And it interferes with your ability to be a good actress if you're constantly aware of yourself as a person. To me, it isn't valuable to think about how I'm coming off all the time if I'm trying to create a character, because that's a process that I love. It's like falling in love and surrendering to another person or a character.”
“Sometimes you look out the window and you look at all the windows, and think inside very single one of them is somebody with some huge, weird, terrible problem, some great jokes.”
“I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb.”