Quotes About Connection

For me, it was my first cosmic connection, on par with a first kiss. No other planet looks as unworldly or surreal as Saturn. When you see it floating in the eyepiece of your telescope, you feel as if you've uncovered mystery in the cosmos.

I've always loved Newcastle. Even when you're watching their games on television, you can feel the passion of the crowd.

If you come up to me in the street, I am going to be delighted to meet you. I became a television star to entertain people, to spread goodness into the world.

The whole idea is to look at the television camera and present as much love as you possibly could to a person who might feel that he or she needs it.

I enjoy working on a series and having a long stretch of time to get to know and connect with my cast and crew. It also gives me the ability to play a character over the span of countless hours of television.

Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters.

People's attitude seems to be that if you don't have a television, you're not connected to reality - somehow you're not in reality. It's quite interesting, because I suspect that possibly it's the reverse.

Every time my song plays on radio or television, Hitesh records it and sends it to me. It feels very good; he appreciates my work.

I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.

You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.

Uttaran' works because it has real emotions and situations. Of course, some drama is essential in a television show, but people connect to the characters.

Whether it's a song or a television show, or a book or poem, art is the thing that cracks me open and encourages me to go on a deeper journey to find my own compassion and empathy and humanity.

I used to watch those syndicated, black-and-white Country Music Television shows from the '60s with my dad. And all of those people that played on our television set, they just felt like family to me. And I believed in my heart, as a little kid, that I would be doing that someday and I would know all those people and we would be friends.

People with HIV and AIDS are nothing to be afraid of. They are people just like every single one of us, and each has a story to tell. These people should be helped, embraced, and not dismissed. We need to open our hearts and our minds to them, and we just may learn we're pretty much all the same.

I tell you that the coaches are like cardiologists - they have to enter the player in their hearts so that the message reaches them.

Our best selves tell us that 'there but for the grace of God... ' and that, in the end, there is no distance, really, between us and them. It is just us. Our best and noble hope is to imitate the God we believe in. The God who has abundant room in God's grief and heart for us all.

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.

I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.

I have jokes I've told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd.

I don't think shoving my butt into people's faces will tell them anything about who I am. How is that connecting to your audience? What is that doing for your music?

I not only want to engage with my fans but want to truly show and express my experiences and potential as a narrator and a story teller.

The eyes are so telling. That's how you engage with people and bond with them. I love direct, strong eye contact.

All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.

You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in.