Quotes About Connection

My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family

I hope you feel better today. Please ring me at work if you are dead.

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I love you, love your work.' And then the next sentence is, 'I loved your brother.' John made people laugh, and laughter is a powerful thing.

Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with someone that I really like and really respect as an artist [like Alessandro Michele].

There's a lot of people I'd love to work with at some point, but I think the song has to be the right thing. It has to be the right fit.

And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.

Relationships are not tailor-made and people are flawed. You have to work around that and love the other person anyway. Our flaws are what make us unique.

I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers.

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.

When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.

I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.

The reason why things work is because of love.

It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

I realized I needed to work with other people instead of doing everything myself.

Part of what I'm doing with generations is that I try to express in my work pieces of my growing up years that I can look back on with great fondness - specifically, a sense of family.

You connect with who you connect with, and if your feelings are strong enough then you'll make that work.

I love Jon Hamm. I'm so lucky to get to work with him and work so closely with him.

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

To be is to be related.

I tried to keep my distance, but my world doesn't work without you in it.

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.