Quotes About Impact

It is interesting the way you create something and send it out into the culture, and then the culture kind of goes berserk.

If I can make someone laugh while sending a message, that's the best lesson.

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

Seniority means nothing if you don't do anything with it.

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

Over the years, my husband and I have sent two dozen or more girls to college and helped them with whatever else they needed.

As far as k. d. lang is concerned, she grew up devouring my music. She sent me a song when she was 8 years old, and she says I never wrote back.

Sometimes if you tell me what a story is about in just a few sentences, I can tell you if it's going to be a success.

It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

You can't think of technology as separate from all of our human drama anymore.

My father and my mother separated when I was two.

You can get somebody to dance and make them jump in the club, but your feet gonna get tired. So when you put it in somebody's heart, it stick with 'em. That's what I come with it. And I can make your feet dance, too. I think that's what separates me from a lot of artists.

I don't want to be someone whose shot takes you out of the dramatic sequence or takes you out of the emotional story that you're trying to tell or says, 'Hey, look at this cool shot I have here.' To me, that's not right.

One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.

Sometimes you say punchlines or say things in music and you may not even know any seriousness behind it. You're just trying to say something in the moment to catch attention.

I understand the seriousness of concussions.

The best sermons are those that are lived.

I decided very early on that the way to make a difference in my life and in other people's lives was to give them services and products that are actually for the many and not for the few.

Twitter's great because people can say whatever they want, they can feel like they're the biggest hero or they can just be a fan but just settle down, it's ridiculous.

A fully fit Arjen is capable of settling a game by himself.

But the fallout from this coronavirus long term is going to be severe and lengthy.

As an actor, I love doing projects that shake you to the core.

If you grow up poor, I'm not sure you ever shake that off.