Quotes About Reflection

That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.

I went to a physiotherapist, and she said something to me no one has ever said: 'Sandi, you have plantar fasciitis, because you're fat.' I left and sat in my car shaking. She'd told me the truth, which no one else had. It was painful, but I needed to hear it.

No-one tells you about being in episodic television and it ending. No-one tells you how painful it is. How bizarre it is when you've dedicated your life to one character for five years.

For me to do interviews is painful. People don't know that. To do an interview is going back in time. And to go back in time, maybe it wasn't all the time that good.

I never really got the chance to scream about some of the painful things. In the book, I look at my whole life experience, at ego and fame, too.

It's really, really painful for me to actually say the words out loud: 'I got beat.'

I have been around for more than 30 years and it has been quite a journey. It had its glorious moments on camera and painful moments off camera.

All painful events have a purpose, and mine has made my life what it is today.

I know I've done bad things. But I've done just as much good as I have done bad. And it's not even necessarily bad. I would say they're growing pains.

I always knew that 'Growing Pains' was not going to go on forever. I remember thinking, 'I'm going to enjoy every moment of this.'

I've found during the times when I've gone through several rounds of auditions that they have really taken pains to consider me, and that makes an enormous difference.

I constantly modify myself. There are downfalls to that because you are constantly trying to figure out who you are, but at the same time, I'm blessed with the lack of base paint on the canvas.

I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.

I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.

I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world.

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.

I went through an obsession with eyebrows. I used to paint my eyebrows really, really strong. I look back now, and some were a little bit strong.

I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.

The '90s weren't my finest years artistically. I wrote some good songs in there, but in terms of my vision of getting the paint on the canvas, that was not my best time. I didn't like the fact that I had fallen into mediocrity.

Oftentimes I feel like I can, through the music, paint a picture of something that I can't look anywhere and see in my real life.

We tend to paint the past only in extremes, as having been either categorically better than the present or irredeemably bad.

I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.