When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
On set, I have a lot of coffee. . . so I try to chug water before going for that next cup.
I'm the company philosopher and the burr in the saddle. I'm the one who says we need to try harder, improve the quality of our products, become a part of the political process, help elect people who are good for the environment.
I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we're not in a sexual relationship.
Pressure is trying to make a putt for a $10 bet with only $5 in your pocket.
I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate toward it and its frog sits on my lips and defecates.
There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. There's often two words that are close in meaning, yet what I'm trying to say is in between them, or it might be a little more layered and nuanced. Having this conversation with you is exciting, because I can feel you resonate, even though we're on the phone. That's really beautiful to me.
Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and you can participate in poetry by going to them and by trying to make something worthy of them.
You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em But you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em
People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.
In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.
Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything.
This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.
I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.
So immediately I'm trying to think: What are some of these times when we feel we're losing our hold on Christ, and what's the fear we're trying to address? I try to get into that quickly.
A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for.
We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward.
I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see in our culture, in our commercial culture.