Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn’t.

With Ed, I always pushed away the good and only heard the bad. Today, I let in the good.

Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I’m actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through.

Clinicians have told me that our emotional is arrested at the age that an eating disorder takes control of our lives. After we recover, we pick up emotionally where we left off at that age.

I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed” (17)

Past and future were out of her hands. One was finished and couldn't be undone. The other was beyond imagining.

Character displays "the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood.

I love a star print. I always get a lurch if I see a nice one.

I don't give much credence to "The Washington Post" polls.

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.

I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish what you believe.

I don't give concerts, I put on a show.

I like my R&B, my hip-hop. But I'm old school, I don't like a lot of new stuff. Though I do like a little bit of Meek Mill. He kind of sounds angry when he's rapping so I like that part of the game.

You cannot be in love with love.

My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.