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It's exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write - whether it be by loving or hating it.

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I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

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I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.

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Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

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I think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners.

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I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

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My yearn for home is broadened Patriotism expanded By callings from beyond So I pack my things Nothing precious All things sacred

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I think everyone's hungry for the truth

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I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

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You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn

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When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

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Some of the most beautiful things that have happened to me in my life have been things that I couldn't explain.

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Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

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I notice that when I feel the most disconnected, once I'm done blaming the moon and everything else, I can see that I am so mired in identification with form and ego and story and identity, and that if I want to, I can read some scripture or read some spiritual book or pray or meditate or sit in the sun or hang around the birds and the dogs, and get a real objective sense of what's really going on here. That usually softens things.

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A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

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Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism.

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When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that's where I go.

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You are a worksmith and who cares for his brothers, whos not seduced by illusions or fair weather friends.

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How long before my dignity is reclaimed?

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All of my unconscious fears were in my face about letting go of the current identity. A lot of the thoughts that came up were fear-based and false, so I had to work to let them go.

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