Quotes About Awareness

I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best.

Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.

Sometimes the expectation of being inspired in one specific way may close you off to the actual inspiration.

When I see the black experience - there's not one, but it is specific, and you can't ignore it.

I've never really had specific goals and stuff like that - I think I sort of learned early on that if you kind of let life roll in at your feet, you will get a lot of great stuff if you are just aware and open to it.

Something that happens to me is that I'll write a play specifically from my own experience, and then I'll inevitably be told that I'm being tunnel-visioned about it. People always ask, 'What about that other race? Or discrimination toward those people?'

To never think about race means that it doesn't really shape your life, or more specifically, the race that you have is not a burden to you.

I went to the Capitol and came to court specifically to draw attention to the problems of the world that directly affect my state of mind and my physical body and to offer a way to clean up the world. This is my intent.

I like to understand, very specifically, what it is I'm seeing, and where it is and where it's going, and a lot of that is just hitting the mark and following the dotted line. But that's good, too because there's concentration and focus that's involved in that.

I lost about 60 pounds. I don't really have a moment specifically that made me do it. I remember little things, like, when I was in Japan, I remember looking around at the portion sizes of a fast food restaurant and being like, 'Well, this has something to do with it.' Americans definitely eat too much.

Specifically, in Canada, the First Nations are often overlooked in pop culture or in general, and when things are reported about our First Nations, it's often negative things - about the hardships they face and what-not.

I don't know anything about bullying in Huntington Beach specifically, but I would assume it's very similar to other places.

I do think the issue with trans lives - especially in the Black community - doesn't necessarily lie within racism, but it does lie within prejudice and misogyny, specifically trans-misogyny.

Being a physical specimen doesn't mean you're any good at playing inside. Positioning, using your head, the mental stuff - that's my game. That's what makes a good inside player.

Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle.

Women's bodies have always been used as a spectacle and objectified.

Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

In 'Uthamaputhiran,' 'Velaiyilla Pattathari' and 'Yennai Arindhaal,' I was a mute spectator to everything.

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.

Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case.

One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.

We don't live in a primitive society any more. Many of us are lucky enough to be educated. We also realize that gender and sexuality is a spectrum.