Grace. Quotes

The only recognizable feature of hope is action.

When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage.

I believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don't indulge, you don't live -might as well be dead. I believe in indulging as a user and not as an abuser.

It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn't be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.

Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.

To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.

Be the weirdest little weird in all Weird Town.

You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.

I spent my summers in Connecticut scooping ice cream and babysitting.

Whatever; bling always has something to hide.

We're at a great transition point in terms of population, demographics, and what it means to be a human being.

I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.

Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.

I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there's a huge difference.

My mom won't let anyone treat me like a little princess.

I did about 50 pull-ups and 1,000 crunches a day. Crazy.

That's what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine.

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another.

I think people are really looking for some way whereby we can grow our souls rather than our economy.

Being in a rock n' roll band was like being in a Sherman tank. Nothing got to you. You were surrounded and protected by men.

What I've learned in the past 12 years of recording (I made my first CD at 12) is how important it is to find one's authentic voice.

The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.

There can be no great love without exclusivity.

Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

I'm busy communicating ideas.... I want you to know what I'm thinking. If you feel a connection, good. If you don't, fine.

But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw up, so someone will tell you, that's all.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.

I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.

It's ridiculous for a woman to say that she's not attracted to other women. That's completely false.

I can't stand [female] characters that are not empowered in a certain way, or at least don't come to a conclusion at the end of the movie where they find empowerment in themselves.

Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing.

It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

The day will bring some lovely thing.

A rebellion is something that is developing as an explosion coming out of the righteous grievances of a community of people.

'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.

I don't like defensive shots-you can only get threes

Young love is so ridiculous, as is middle-aged and old love. And it's also hilarious. When have you ever felt so vulnerable and wonderful and terrible at the same time?

Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.

We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.

Learning is not a product of teaching . kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They're basically little scientists. If we don't stop that process, it will continue.

My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined.