O.v Grace Quotes

In Germany I ingested the entire contents of the hotel mini-bar before a show and stuck my fingers in this guy's nostrils because I thought they would fit.

Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.

Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

Sometimes I get mad when I think that I only have maybe 40 or 50 more springs in New York. When I miss one, 'cause I'm on location for a film, I wanna go, 'That's it, that just cost me one of my 50!'

The great thing about playing a character that's similar to the audience, or similar to you, is that you get to have the same reaction that you would actually have to whatever's going on.

Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet.

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.

I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances.

If necessary, I cry. I pray. I rest. I'm fortunate to have quite a few strong, independent, loving, and unbiased women in my life that I can talk things through with.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.

If you want to do things, do things.

I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.

We write about what we don't know about what we know.

I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.

What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

Well, you have children so you know: little children little troubles, big children, big troubles - it's a saying in Yiddish. Maybe the Chinese said it too.

There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the family. And how they live, the money of it.

Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.

In the park I met other women and I started to get interested in their lives. I developed a lot of pressure to talk about women's lives, and children's lives, too. Children interest me tremendously.

I like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.

Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.

Write from what you know into what you don't know.

I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.

I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.

I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup and I looked like a boy.

My solo albums were each like a half-finished puzzle; they represented only the beginning of a full picture. Simply put, they were inadequate and incomplete.

I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.

This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old.

I don t wanna see old people on a rock & roll stage.

We have to see today in light of the transition, say, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry, and from industry to post-industry. We're in an epoch transition.

The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?

Whenever I see her, we laugh enough to last for the month. She's my best friend, and someday when we're old enough I'm going to talk her into staying here forever.

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.

I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.

The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad.

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

Though you see nothing, he is acting.