A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That's consistent with who I am. I don't pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax.
It's a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
The marriages to Mickey and Artie were easy come, easy go. I called them my 'starter husbands!'
Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.
I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.
A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.
An angel of God never has wings.
If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.
The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.
Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.
I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.
My mom saved my life. She gave me mouth-to-mouth more than once.
I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
It basically comes down to that word: Love. I guess that's what it's all about.
Stuff happens when you are a kid; it scars you inside for life.
What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling.
All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.
When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.
If you ain't thinkin' about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin' about nothin'.
What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!
I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.
God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
I liked to play dress-up.
I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.
Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.
An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.
If you scapegoat someone, it's a third party that will be aware of it. It won't be you. Because you will believe you are doing the right thing.
We don't even know what our desire is. We ask other people to tell us our desires. We would like our desires to come from our deepest selves, our personal depths - but if it did, it would not be desire. Desire is always for something we feel we lack.
We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.
I do not read many periodicals, and I have little or no contact with progressive Christians, so I don't really know what goes on with them. It seemed to me that very often, the progressive Christianity was an initial step in de-Christianization, but this was probably unfair.
Individualism is a formidable lie.
Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.
Do you not know that the largest trees, which have required years to grow, are cut down in one hour? It is foolish to look for their fruits and yet to be unprepared for their fall. Let it be your consolation, then, that God's enemies, however honorable and exalted they may have been, shall nevertheless fade away like the smoke.
Between the uprightness of my conscience and the hardness of my lot, I know not how either to show respect to my feelings or to the times. The bitterness of my mind urges me at all hazards to speak what I think, whereas the necessity of the times prompts me, however unbecomingly, to keep silence. Good God! Which way shall I turn myself?
Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.
