Quotes About Clarity

I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.

Common sense often makes good law.

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

I look in the mirror every morning, okay. What is going on here? You know, I just say, 'Look, it's sheer insanity.'

It's okay to say what you want to do.

It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.

I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.

Call me old-fashioned, but I like my conditioners to be conditioners and my shampoos to be shampoos.

The older I get, the more I have to think long and hard about what I need to say and why.

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.

Joanna is a strong female character, and I love playing her. But one of the things about her is that she always says exactly what she's thinking.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

I feel like I'm just pretty - any time I have, like, a lot of emotions happening at one time, I just - everything gets really, like, muddy. Like, I feel just, like, in a haze or something.

I'm very wholehearted. I want to concentrate on one thing in my life at one time.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

I don't like watching things where I think the people onscreen are ahead of me or assuming I know something that I don't know.

I remember walking onstage in the first performance, and something hit me like a brick wall, and I just knew at that moment that this is something I had to do for the rest of my life, and I've never looked back.

If you can find interesting ways to be clear, you're really onto something.

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

There's an idea about who I am that's eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel like I have to fulfill that role. Even when things come out of my mouth, I want to be sure I'm saying exactly what I mean.