Quotes About Empathy

Every quality I despise in George Bush is a quality I despise in myself. He is my worst self realized.

I feel that we Germans are spending less and less time talking to each other. And even less time listening to each other.

Sometimes you get the cynical person saying, 'Do we really need another book set in Nazi Germany?' But I think you just have to ask, 'Is this a story worth telling?'

The first time I was called up for Germany, it was Mesut who decided to look after me. He told me if I ever had any kind of problem, he would try to help me out, and that is exactly what he did. For sure, he helped me a lot.

Every day, do small gestures of generosity! It does not mean go to Cambodia. Do it at home. If you do nothing at home, evil becomes normal.

People will always want to get together in groups at plays and have the contagious thing of someone laughing with them.

Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.

I'm getting better, but I used to pull away from emotion, and from people.

One of the greatest things about getting older as an actor is that you settle into who you are and you don't begrudge everyone else what they have.

I am not running for president, but I've always known if I ever did run for president - or local dogcatcher, for that matter - the boy I bullied would and should arise as a necessary ghost from my past.

I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.

Love is a gift.

When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.

To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.

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

I really enjoy the shopping and going out and getting stuff for other people. I could really give a damn about getting gifts for myself, but I really enjoy giving gifts.

Katya Zamolodchikova

I love buying gifts for people who I am close to as I know their likes and dislikes.

When people come to my gigs, they feel accepted as they are and they feel part of this family.

I'm a little girl; no one wants to beat up on me.

I think there's always a way to bring something, even if it is just the girlfriend role, as long as you're playing it with an idea of who that person is on their own, away from the male character.

There's so many R&B songs where guys are talking about a clingy girl, like, 'I don't want a girlfriend, and this girl's so clingy, and blah blah blah.' But I'm a woman, and I've been in situations that have been the reverse of that, so I wanted to tell that story.

If you have a girlfriend who is a fellow divorcee, you share a lot of common ground because you've been through the same things.

You can't have your girlfriend mad at you.