Quotes about "Contemporary Issues"

For sure, I won't go hunting for a guy to love and get married to. But once I'm in love, I'll do what it takes to make it work. ”

I'm a simple hillbilly. I don't like eating modern, industrialized, fast food. I grew up eating home-cooked food. So when I'm traveling abroad, like when I recently received a six-month writing fellowship to Iowa in the U.S., I like to cook my own food. ”

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love. ”

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. ”

People want me to shut up, but I won't. I believe social change is possible; that's why I'm an activist. ”

A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse. ”

You have to have great passion, because to sing operatic music requires lots of work. I study for at least two hours every day. The voice is like an instrument and requires constant exercise. ”

When I'm sniffing around new territory, I often choose, rather randomly, one general book and then follow its bibliography and notes to other, more specialized works and to the primary source material. ”

I was 18 when I got my first TV job. ”

For some reason, comedy just comes easily to me, and I feel like I can do it. I don't have any doubt. When I work on drama, there's always a sense of 'Did I find this person's truth at the bottom of this?' And it's hard to tell sometimes. ”