Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition. ”

What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting. ”

I have to expose myself and then accept the judgment that audiences and critics will have. And that's okay. I appreciate the elliptical nature of it. Sometimes people are more in the mood to be nice to me than others, and that's great. ”

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed. ”

I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being. ”

While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.' ”

I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values. ”

You don't have to do the picture, you have to do the autograph, but it's important to take that moment to make a human connection. ”

I can do the PR thing until the cows come home. That's my nature. I never want to upset anybody. ”

My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving. ”