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As any Christian would understand, I feel church is sacred. For me, it is the place I worship, where I learn about God and feel closest to Him each week. ”
I lived on Nantucket in college during the summer and have spent a lot of time there since. It's a special place for me. ”
Loss is something that I think is ultimately the number one struggle for humans. ”
I'll be giving a speech at the randomest place, like a bank or something, and a guy in a suit will say, 'I'm totally freaked out that I'm talking to the girl from 'Cremaster.' For the rest of my life, that movie will be playing in a museum somewhere. I never could have expected that huge response. ”
In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine. ”
I didn't want to be written about as a human-interest story. I didn't want to be a passing thing. You know, now we move on to the fat girl who had her stomach stapled. I didn't want to become a gimmick: the disabled model. ”
I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events that is also so beautiful and ethereal. ”
I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me the most are often those that I have to figure out its meaning for myself. The human being's ability to make a metaphor to describe a human experience is just really cool. ”
I think, from a woman's perspective, that my interest as an investor and the way that I relate to entrepreneurs is a little bit different. ”
There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place. ”