The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.
I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.
When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.
Sadly, I never really tell people what I think. So it's a real treat to play a woman who's able to speak her mind unabashedly.
The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
I want to play real people. Real women. I want to be where the fun is - closer to humanity.
As creators and as readers, we need to always be pushing it - by looking for the books, looking for the artists and people and stories to support what we feel to be a better representation of all women. Of real women.
People want to see real women on screen.
I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.
I don't see coming down to London and talking to people and making TV shows as real work. The only reason I do it is because they keep coming up with decent ideas.
A lot of people, especially comedians, just feel like, 'Oh, I can be charming and whatever, and have fun, and everybody is just going to like me.' But you've got to work. There's got to be a real work ethic that gets you better.
Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time.
Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.
Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.
I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.
I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.
I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
