quotes about Worldly Wisdom

“And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.”

“I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.”

“I personally like to do independent films.”

“All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.”

“The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.”

“The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight allows us a full grasp of the world, all things considered, just as a frigid melancholy grants us full possession of ourselves. We may hide from horror only in the heart of horror. (“The Medusa”)”

“If you don't have enough you won't be happy. Neither are you happy if you have too much. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.”

“I'm still always a country girl from New Zealand.”

Source : Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

“Anger is its own excuse and its own reward ...”

“I have a B.A. in Spanish, so briefly I thought that somebody might pay me to speak Spanish badly in another country, like Norway.”