Natalie Quotes

When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)

It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.

Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.

the casualties among us include not just those who are dying, or bleeding, or recovering from injury, but also the caretakers around the edges whose selves fall sacrificed to their charges.

Ours was a storytelling family even in pleasing times, and in those days my parents looked on words as our sustenance, rich in their flavor and wholesome for the soul.

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

Only twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.

Im an accidental entrepreneur.

Touching clothes is just shopping foreplay, but it's changing. After all, you don't need to try a Mercedes to know that you'd like one.

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!

Some relationships aren't true relationships. And it's usually when the other person does something really terrible that you realize it. And that's when it's time to move on.

I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's so worth is. It's done wonders for my mood

I mean the Internet is like the luckiest thing - we have everything at our fingertips right now.

Use Starbucks mints for every occasion—they're the strongest

There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.

Point shoes are torture devices.

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.

One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle.

A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.

Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.

A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.

I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.

I coach hockey players—some of them just happen to be girls. When I’m coaching youth hockey, I put the boys and girls together and they can’t tell the difference. They are just playing hockey.

I've been a member of some good gyms in the past. I love a good spinning class; I love a good aerobics class.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

It's been a dream for me since I was six years old to go to the Olympic Games and to finally have that dream realised is something massive for me.

Great lovers realize that they are what they are in love with.

When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.

Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things were and are, you hardly need anything else.

The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.

Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.

Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.

I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.

In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.

Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.