Quotes About Community

I've got a friend who's a builder, a friend in marketing, a friend who does furniture removals... It's good to stay grounded like that.

I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded.

My friends will help me stay grounded, and so will my family.

I have a great family and great friends, and I think that they'll keep me grounded.

It's important to keep yourself grounded, and my friends and family make sure of that.

I feel I need to have people outside of show business who keep me grounded and define who I am.

What really keeps me grounded is my fans and the way that I connect with them.

I really like school. I like going to school, which sounds a bit stupid, but I do. And I love the social aspect of it: it keeps me grounded, and it's nice to have that routine.

You can't come back to Australia and be like, 'I've been doing this and I've been doing this.' 'Cause they'll be like, 'Who do you think you are, mate?' Which is good! It keeps you really, y'know, grounded, I guess.

I live in a flat with my three best mates from university, none of whom are actors. It keeps you grounded.

Chicago is old stomping grounds for me.

It's kind of like those little electric bumper cars where you drive around and see if you can hit the other guy. That's exactly what the country is like now. You no longer have the sense of community. Of loyalty. It's lost its sense of group. It has nothing to do with leadership.

I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.

It doesn't matter what you believe in or where you're from. It doesn't matter what group you're in: we're all the same. We all end up in the same-sized box.

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

Try to have as diverse group of friends as possible and don't get into the the clique scenario.

I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group.

I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

The old approach of sacrificing the needs of one group to benefit another just won't work.

In the black sororities, they celebrate achievement academically, and they really do work toward community service. As much as the white sororities claim that's the case in their groups, it's not really so. White sororities focus on relationships.

Bumble really sets the stage for an empowered and modern way to connect, which educated and forward-thinking groups of people have really gravitated to.

It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.

I love support groups, people talking about their feelings.