You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.
~I think what surprised me the most about motherhood, as sentimental as it sounds, is how much I love my kids. I mean, I just can't believe it. It's like a whole new dimension in emotion that I've never experienced. ~
I have an amazing team, and we find people who resonate with us, but sometimes our scope is still small because we are a pretty small group and we have so much work to do. We get approached a lot.
I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.
I really am a smoothie person. I love making a morning smoothie and then will drink some coffee and will not eat at all before lunch.
Is it better not to drink alcohol and eat fried food and not have cheese and never have a cigarette at a party? Of course, but that's just not life.
The biggest compliments I've gotten have been from people who've seen the film Compliance at festivals and have said, "You know, I fully connected with these people. The movie made me very uncomfortable because I totally can see how this or that situation happened. " They're, for lack of a better term, picking up what I was putting down. For me, it's very empowering to feel like we made something interesting.
If this understanding of the good news of Jesus prevailed among Christians, the belief that Jesus’s message is about how to get somewhere else, you could possibly end up with a world in which millions of people were starving, thirsty, and poor; the earth was being exploited and polluted; disease and despair were everywhere; and Christians weren’t known for doing much about it. If it got bad enough, you might even have people rejecting Jesus because of how his followers lived. That would be tragic.
The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.
Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey