Quotes About Communication

TV is one of the biggest mediums, and over time, it will get bigger.

I'm drawn to people rather than mediums - directors, writers, actors.

My goal is just to continue to find mediums to tell stories that I think need to be told.

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.

Kids have this resistance to listening to adults and authority, period.

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything.

I won't sleep until I have resolved an issue with my husband.

Violence has never resolved any issue.

As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience.

When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want.

If you do right by people, and you talk to the basic issues most people care about and have a vision for how we can achieve so much more as a country, as a community, I believe that resonates with people.

I try to be respectful of how other people think, I try to listen to what they're saying.

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

At the end of the day, we can talk about anything but we have to be respectful.

I'm not an artist that strays away from my fans. Nah, everybody is open to come and talk to me respectfully and I'm going to give them the same respect.

I don't have a favorite process. My favorite process is the right process for the person I am working with. I can fit in any process as long as the director respects who I am and doesn't try to put me in a situation to get something out of me - if I can give it without that situation.

If you are a woman with this full life who is incredibly ambitious like I am, you have to find somebody who is into it, respects it, encourages it, and celebrates it because he loves that about you. Otherwise, you're going to feel like you're muting yourself.

I think talking about things that have happened in my life gives people an opportunity in many respects.

I have already said and will continue to say that I won't respond to personal abuse, and I never make any personal abuse, ever, to anybody. I just don't do that kind of politics.

I am interested in writing how women really feel, how they really think, and how they respond to men. I don't want men reading my books because they might find out too much.

If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

I take things in better when I'm allowed to talk, and respond, and engage and move around a bit.