Quotes About Connection

I follow the work of my contemporaries. I love their work.

It always felt as though there was a wall between me and contemporary dance. I didn't know how to get into it.

With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.

I want my channel to be a place people go even if they don't care about Lilly. I don't want them to have to know about Lilly or care about me as a person to enjoy my content.

I think the best content on BuzzFeed is something you share with someone else in your life, and it connects you to them. And that's a big part of what e-mail's about as well.

I just feel like content is content; people want to see it resonate.

When I've had a talk with someone, I like them to leave unconfused. No need for contention.

My contention is even people who are living without social media are not just aware of it, they are affected by it.

When you're looking back at your ancestral history or the cultural context of your identity, it's natural to search for that in the food.

I just find it so weird that I can come to another continent and have people turn up. I guess it's just the internet... It just makes it so available to everyone.

I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.

The thing is, when you have a child with someone, like it or not, you're going to have to have a continuing relationship with them.

I think if you pick someone that you love, you will continuously fall in love with them.

'Super Contra' was the game I fell in love with. I played and beat that game with my mom.

It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.

You ask people to fall in love with you. To need you. To want you. To buy your records and come see you. You have an emotional contract with people. To break up is to violate that contract.

I have a great affiliation with the Catholic community having studied at convent schools.

Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

I love somebody that can hold a great conversation.

It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.

Once in a while, I bump into a knitter, and we have a lovely conversation. But if you figure out the number of people who know me and the people who don't, it's really a small number.

When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.