Quotes About Connection

I was a highly sensitive kid, sort of an old soul, and I felt like a lot of people in my peer group didn't fully understand me, or I couldn't fully be myself. I just wasn't engaged in a way that was fulfilling me.

My peers and colleagues inspire me.

I was really lucky about two things about my life as a kid: I had awesome parents, and I had awesome peers.

Yeah, I used to write short stories at first, but once you work on something, you want to show people. My peers weren't interested in me reading 30-40 pages to them.

I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals.

People love to talk about the things that are important to them, but oftentimes as a journalist, if you're entering a world that's pretty esoteric and difficult to penetrate and has many barriers to outsiders, then the people inside that world just don't have the same language as you do.

I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.

All of the people are the dependents of Allah.

How can you make the people change? How can you reach them in their heart? I do not have the answers for this.

I'm very much a people person.

I get deep into the creative aspect, and Nick is the people person.

I'm a people person. I'm a hugger.

I am very much a people person.

I like to think of myself as a people person.

That's how my mom was. She did that. She went out of her way to say hi to people or to speak to people. She was a people person.

I'm a people person, I love being around people.

People say that if you talk too much about sex, you take away the mystery. I say, if you're somebody who likes to talk, talk all you want - it's not listening. You will never take away the mystery.

People say, 'Did you violate Heaven?' Well, God is down here, too. If you believe in God, you believe in God here as well as 240,000 miles away.

Sometimes people say that kids with autism aren't capable of love. That's ridiculous. My son loves deeply. He just doesn't communicate well.

One thing I cannot stand is when people say, 'Hi, how are you?' and they don't wait to hear how I am. They're just going through the motions. I say to people: 'Keep it human. Keep it alive. Don't turn into a robot.' You have to hear what the other person is saying clearly.

There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well, you know, I kinda get her now.' I've actually had people say that to me.

No matter what people say, your fans are the ones that come to watch the movie or come to your shows and that's the most important thing.

A lot of people say that comedy doesn't travel well. I found it very accessible.

Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.