For me, when I do a show is to make sure that I gain some new people.
Half the Sky: Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide
When our grandchildren ask us where we were when the voiceless and the vulnerable in our era needed leaders of compassion and purpose, I hope we can say that we showed up, and that we showed up on time.
The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same direction - our legs and lungs of endurance; And we need sturdy stores of joy.
Justice is doing for others what we would want done for us.
Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.
And here is one choice that our Father wants us to understand as Christians – and I believe this is the choice of our age: Do we want to be brave or safe? Gently, lovingly, our heavenly Father wants us to know that we simply can’t be both.
By county, there's like 14 different accents in Mississippi alone. And now, present day, a Mississippi accent is different than in 1963. So we had a dialect coach, which is like going to visit France and having to translate all your emotions into French, and French isn't your first language. I had to go through that filter, so it was interesting.
Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain big, that they convince me of my own inadequacy. This awful state of reverence leads to paralyzing brain freeze. At times like that the only way out is for me to decide, 'To hell with it. I can't do it right, so I'll do it wrong. I can't do it well, but I can do it badly. ' Sometimes, with luck, while I'm sweating to do it wrong, I stumble on a right way.
Here we supped. . . , having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.