Quotes About Awareness

When George Bush used the Willie Horton ad, he knew what he was doing.

I've been in the ring with some great workers, but anything that I can't see that's behind me - I wasn't a big fan of german suplexes or this buckle bomb because you can't see where you are in the air.

I used to say when I was younger, 'I'm exhausted; writers can only write for four hours a day and that's done.' Now I find, as I'm getting older and I'm more aware of time, I can actually write all day.

There are lots of scary things about getting older, but one of the biggest, I guess, is death itself. Especially in midlife, when we suddenly wake up to the fact we may have fewer years left than we have already lived.

I grew up in the ghetto, and the thing is when there were problems, I knew when to get away.

It wasn't the ghetto here or anything like that. But it got rough. I'll put it this way. I always knew where I lived. I always knew I was in Seaside. That wasn't plush. I wasn't in Monterey. I wasn't in Carmel. I was in Seaside. I knew what that meant.

We want to make everybody mad enough to look at the ghetto right in their own state, not just to look at the middle-class and the rich areas.

All my life, I never realized you could have a conversation with a ghost.

Many people told me such convincing ghost stories that I felt that there really were ghosts, though I hadn't seen any. And though I still haven't seen a ghost, I feel that they are all around us; we are just not aware of them being there.

You speak things into existence, but there's a gift and a curse with that. You got to be careful what you say.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.

I'm not one of those people who sits around knowing all bands and going to gigs all the time.

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

I think most actors go into the business thinking, 'I can play everything. Why can't I play a black woman? Just give me a chance.' Then you grow up and realize it's probably better that they cast an actual black woman.

I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me.

I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally.

With every advance, you have to look over your shoulder and know what you're giving up - look over your shoulder and look at what falls away.

I try to not to overanalyze, not to watch myself too much, but to be present in life and in my art. I'm so glad it comes off in that way.

I don't know how much of the 'casting couch' exists in the industry, as I've not seen it myself. I'm glad that I've not had to.

Body shaming is really bad and I'm glad that people have actually started coming forth and speaking about it.

I try not to look at press. However, I have a mother, who will gladly tell me what's going on out there.

They don't know they're living in a glass house.