Quotes About Connection

I grew up loving actors from a distance but still felt so close to them. I feel like to be on the other side right now is one of the biggest opportunities I could ever have.

When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.

Roy Acuff's from Maynardville, and that's where a lot of my family's from. So he's, I've been told, a distant cousin, as well.

The President must not be such a distant person.

Climate change is not a distant problem. It's involved in all of our lives through the stuff that we use, buy and eat - which is not to say that individuals like you and me are responsible for climate change.

I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults.

There is no distinction between reverence for existence and our senses and/or apathy.

In fact, a lot of saas-bahus of today share a distinctive bond of support and understanding. I do feel that's the way it should be.

My main thing is not being distracted, being present at dinner time. I'll make sure my phone's not there and I'm not replying to emails.

If you've ever had the experience of being in conversation with someone when they were fully present, listening deeply to you when you're sharing with them, you know that five minutes of a fully present conversation like that can be more powerful than 30 minutes of distracted conversation.

A film is between you and the audience. The distributors are the only people in between us. It is a straight equation.

One of the rules of running for Congress is no matter where you go, you speak like you're speaking to the whole district.

In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.

There are a lot of things about my father, various things, that people connect with. He was that diverse of a person, and he has a diverse fanbase.

I like the Bay Area because it's very diverse, and I'm in touch with the people.

The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.

There's moments I go through day to day because I'm human. I think the diversity in my music is going to help people relate to that.

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.

I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.

We simply must find ways both to bridge the differences that still seem to divide us and focus on the things that we share.

It's cool to be able to use comedy as a way to make people feel like they're a part of a bigger collective rather than as a way to divide.

When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.

Keeping families and friends divided is unforgivable.