Annie Quotes

Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.

Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.

I'm not living my life under the spotlight for anybody.

The music industry has always been a beast, which would eat you up and spit you out.

We're all born, and if you're going to live to be elderly, you'll have gone through a life journey different than anyone else's. It's unique to you, but you'll have some common themes.

We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.

I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can.

I'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and billions of dollars - we're so resourceful.

You have a bigger view, of something bigger than you, and you have to view that and take that in mind. At times you feel like despair rises up over hope, then other times you feel hopeful again.

Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.

I'm passionate about everything, actually. I'm passionate about life.

There's always darkness around, and if you focus on the darkness, you don't know where to go. But if you direct yourself at the light - there it is! It's right there.

The contrast of the world that we live in and the world that is here in Aspen and the world inhabited by women who have no resources, little or no, very few resources - huge disparity.

To try to help people have babies in a healthy way and to celebrate the process of delivering a child which will be healthy is, I think, almost the best part of healthcare.

It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.

Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.

Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people to courageous action the way that powerful stories can.

We've got to rescue our democracy by using it.

Shop smarter and shop less. But please don't let that dissuade you from engaging in campaigns to make real lasting change.

The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.

Activists need to get the facts right. One of the big assets we have on our side is the truth, and we lose credibility and power if w e're loose with that.

It's crucial we know the facts and science, but it's naïve to rely on them alone to build a movement for change.

I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do].

One mans cult is another mans religion.

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

I'm a big fan of horror, personally.

If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.

Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.

Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.

I would rather be dead than not read

It's easier to die if others around you are dying.

I love to engage people who think differently than I do.

I had many clients who didn't respect me, probably because of how they were raised. We're all the walking wounded.

I had this client I'll call Samuel. Not his real name. I saw him steadily for twenty years, usually twice a month. Over twenty years you really get to know someone.

Nothing gets me more excited and inspired than something new.

The biggest key for me to stay healthy is sleep.

The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is losing my mom four years ago. I wouldn't even say that I've overcome it, really. I don't imagine that I ever will.

If I start to feel run-down or like I'm going to get sick, I know I need sleep - stat. I can sometimes keep a sickness at bay with a good night's sleep!

There's really no point in letting failure get the best of you. Better to just let it go and move on.

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.

Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you.

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?

I guess knowledge alone does not equal wisdom.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.And be it gash or gold it will not comeAgain in this identical disguise.

Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yourself responsible for whatever the status quo does to you.

the next time you hear someone in a workshop remarking on how good a particular free-verse line or passage sounds, scan it. The odds are that it will fall into a regular metrical pattern.

Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.