"Every personal experience of my life impacts my music."

“We are on this earth to become the Spirit, to be a channel of God's love and above all, to enter into the Kingdom of God.”
“As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.”
“Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things.... But as an endless diet for the sake of excitement and sensation in stories whose plots are vehicles for killing and torture and little more, it is not healthy for young children. Unfamiliar as yet with the full story of human response, they are being misled when they are offered perversion before they have fully learned what is sound.”
“Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy.”

Source : "TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads How Obama can solve his image problem". www.cbsnews.com. August 1, 2011.
“When I found out I was pregnant, my mother said, Dont separate your life, the life that youre going to make with this child, from the things that you are and what you want to do.”
“[Belafonte] was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly.”
“I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.”
“When companies start measuring success by clicks that doesn't compute to us, the only thing that computes to us is cash.”

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