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Irgendwann kam mir die Erleuchtung, dass ich, wenn ich Autor werden wollte, vielleicht aufhören sollte, nur über das Schreiben nachzudenken und tatsächlich mit Schreiben anzufangen.

I had at some point the epiphany that if I wanted to be a writer, maybe I should stop thinking about writing, or stop writing about writing, and actually write.

Manche Sprachen erweitern nicht nur unsere Fähigkeit, mit verschiedenen Menschen zu reden, sondern auch, wie man denkt.

Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

Manche Geschichten haben keine Moral. Manchmal sind Dunkelheit und Wahnsinn einfach nur das.

Some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

Man sollte sich mit den richtigen Leuten umgeben, mit Leuten die nicht zulassen, dass man Fehler macht.

I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong.

Für ein Jahr auf's College zu gehen war eventuell die beste Entscheidung meines Lebens.

I think going to college for that one year was probably the best thing I have ever done.

Denver ist mein Zuhause geworden. Hier die Anerkennung für meine sportlichen Leistungen zu bekommen, ist eine große Ehre.

Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.

Wie schön und gut würden alle Menschen sein, wenn sie sich jeden Abend vor dem Einschlafen die Ereignisse des ganzen Tages vor Augen führten und überlegten, was gut und was schlecht gewesen ist.

Ich glaube an mich selbst und an die Gerechtigkeit, für die ich mein ganzes Leben gekämpft habe.

I believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life.

Mir wurde klar, dass man die Apartheid entweder überleben oder mit ihr untergehen musste. Ich habe mich entschieden, zu überleben.

It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.

Ich spreche nie über mein Privatleben.

I never talk about my private life.

Alles, was ich über Politik zu sagen habe ist, dass die Menschen wählen gehen sollten.

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.

Ich bin eine Künstlerin... ich bin hier, um mich auszudrücken.

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

Der eigene Stil wird auf den schonungslosen Ambossen der täglichen Deadlines geschmiedet.

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

Der Künstler ist nichts ohne Talent, aber Talent ist nichts ohne Arbeit.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Mein Hobby ist Stille.

My hobby is silence.

One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn't live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they've been brutalized for so long.

Das kapitalistische Amerika hat moderne, unabhängige Frauen hervor gebracht. Niemals in der Geschichte hatten Frauen mehr Entscheidungsfreiheit darin, wie sie sich kleiden, verhalten, arbeiten oder sexuell orientieren.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.

Man kann nicht von sich behaupten, etwas gesehen zu haben, solange man es nicht fotografiert hat.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

I'm almost totally politically inactive.

I've avoided the press and a lot of stuff that would have made me more visible just because it's not my style.

I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

I'm not so much of a person for causes, unless I specifically - for instance, if it's my cause, or some poor people's, I'll try to help. But you won't find me playing for any peace candidates - or any candidates.

If everybody'd agree to quit using money, I'd be happy to play for free every day for awhile. But I don't play benefits or any kind of fund-raisers. I prefer to play at hospitals, for people who otherwise can't see us. But I can't see playing for causes, whatever the cause may be.

You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

I always approach film as a fan.

I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.

I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!

Musik hat die Macht mich aufzuheitern, wie sonst nichts auf der Welt. Sie gibt mir Frieden. Erinnert mich daran, wer ich wirklich bin.

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

Emotionen - wenn sie vom Autor zum Ausdruck gebracht werden - gehen durch ein Buch und treffen dann den Leser. Aber es müssen ehrliche Emotionen sein.

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.

I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.

I had the sets that meant so much to this character built - right in my home, especially the kitchen, which was important both for her character and for your introduction to her when Albert comes to visit.

I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.

I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.

What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.