I hope that the things that I sing about will be an inspiration for people to be original.
The hardest thing to do is dig deep and be patient about the things you're going to learn month to month and quarter to quarter.
My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. For example, a politician really can't be elected if he's hated by half the people. A talk show host, however, can be an overwhelming national phenomenon while being hated by half the people.
I used to say in interviews that I don't necessarily want to be the first black woman or first model to do certain things; I just want to see it done.
I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I did. I wanted to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter.
If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable.
When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.
We have beastly qualities within us. If we're put into certain circumstances, and the walls around us come in tighter and tighter, we all could maybe do dangerous things.
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
This is a beautiful life we lead in spite of whatever things come against us or whatever team loses or wins.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
One of the beautiful things about a movement is that there are many strategies and many tactics contained within it. Not every participant in a movement is required to do exactly the same things.
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
