Perceiving myself through others' ideas of what it means to be a woman has made it difficult for me to achieve the necessary commi...tment [to be a poet].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the qualit...y of our action is not a matter of indifference.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Steve, all those things that happened to us, everything that went before, we'll forget it. You'll see. I'll make you forget it. Af...ter it's done, after it's all over and we're safe, it'll be just you and me. You and me. The way it should've been all along from the start.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I traveled and made money and I wouldn't let anybody get between me and my music. If I belong to anything, I belong to my music. ......What you were born to do, you don't stop to think, should I? could I? would I? I only think, will I? And, I shall!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in opposition to some, it joins us with others similarl...y committed. Commitment moves us from the mirror trap of the self absorbed with the self to the freedom of a community of shared values.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: "Look at me." How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? The...re is no such thing as an uncommitted actor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »