Cross-pressure — The simultaneous pressure of various spiritual options; or the feeling of being caught between an echo of transcendence and the drive toward immanentization. Produces the nova effect.

Age of Authenticity

Age of Mobilization

Ancien regime

Buffered self

Closed world structures

Excarnation

Exclusive humanism

Expressive individualism

Fragilization

Fullness

Immanent frame

Immanentization

Maximal demand

Modern moral order

Nova effect

Porous self

Reform

Secular 1

Secular 2

Secular 3

Secularism

Social imaginary

Spin

Subtraction stories

Take

Transformation perspective

Unthought

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.

Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.

I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

The thought of being in space, and kind of enclosed, I find would be very claustrophobic. I think I would panic in that situation.

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.

If I realize that actually there's quantum mechanics happening around us all the time in some macroscopic, interconnected way, then that doesn't change my perception of it, that doesn't change my interaction with it; it just changes how I view my interaction.

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.

I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but (for me, at least) there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well.

Every evening I turn my worries over to God. Hes going to be up all night anyway.

The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices made are informed.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.

If you look at 'Golden Son,' it was just a focused, isolated battle for Mars.

To me, I'm the epitome of what a ghetto child is: I was raised by a single parent; I stayed in apartments my whole life; I don't think I've ever cut the grass.

I've set aside a nice chunk of my advertising revenue each month for giveaways, like a KitchenAid mixer. I like buying them for the audience, because without the audience I wouldn't have the blog or the revenue in the first place.

When I was eight years old, I asked my mum, 'Mum, can I do two jobs?' And she was like, 'Absolutely!' 'Cause I'd like to act for 15 years and then direct for 15 years.'

What's happening on the Colorado River is happening all over the world. The water is overused, overdammed, and it's polluted in some places.

Children need to trust and depend upon those who are responsible for them.