I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of... →
Diablo Cody
One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors know each other and... →
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho
I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience... →
Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the... →
I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative... →
J. M. Coetzee
Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women... →
Andrew Cohen
When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.
Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her... →