Quotes About Passion

Those who mismanage our affairs would silence our criticism by pretending they have facts not avaliable to the rest of us. Our best weapon against them is not to marshal facts, of which they are truly managers, but passion. Passion is our hope and strenght.

And strange are the ways of deep emotion.

This does not in any way close the argument for the development of African languages by the intervention of writers and governments. But we do not have to falsify our history in the process. That would be playing politics. The words of the Czech novelist Kundera should ring in our ears: Those who seek power passionately do so not to change the present or the future but the past—to rewrite history. There is no cause for writers to join their ranks.

Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.

The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

Or perhaps it is just that desire lies at the heart of human existence. When we turn away from one desire, we must find another to cleave to with all our strength --or else we die.

I USED TO make love. Now I Make coffee.

DON'T EVEN TRY to love me or I'll knock your socks off

It's not about you, it's about the idea you're passionate about. Your job is to be there in service of that idea, to offer it as a gift.

Nothing -- and I mean nothing, Carly Banks -- is crazy if you're in love.

there is no gift to the world like a man doing what he enjoys.

Every song, just like every person, has a story....All good songs leak from a broken heart. And the good ones don't give you something, as much as they take what's already inside and blow on the embers. [Mack Strum]

your identity will be tied to whatever you give your heart to. Doesn't sound like the Lord has first place.

Bryan Cranston's advice to actors, it's my favorite thing, and it changed my life. He said: Don't go into an audition to get the job, go to share your work. That was so liberating. You read it, interpret it, embody it the way you want to play that person and embody them with your whole heart and soul for those 20 minutes.

When you fight for the game, fight to win and then get the goal in the latter minutes, especially at Old Trafford, it's a wonderful, amazing feeling.

There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job.

'Just What I Am' took me all of 10 minutes to make. 'Immortal' maybe took 30 minutes. It's not hard for me. 'Indicud' is almost what my first album should have sounded like, had I really been able to channel all of the ideas I had into music.

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

Anything that happens in film industry is a miracle.

I don't think about an industry or building things, but somebody says you're lucky if you find something you like to do, which is true, and then it's a miracle if you get paid to do it.

To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.

You always gotta do what you like. If it connects, it's a miracle, but it happened with Die Antwoord.

I've been an REM fan since I was a little girl. I would jump around to 'Stand' in the mirror.

From when I can remember, I wanted to be an actress. I am a die hard fan of dancing and would take my dad's clothes and my mom's clothes and dance in front of the mirror. I loved my dad's clothes, as they had a lot of glitter in them.