Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

I wasn't really a work conscious type of person.

Just as everybody has the vote including women I think children should because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us the love of Black women for each other.

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

In my definition of consciousness consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth but as highly powerful conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.

These are very subtle things of course and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.

Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece anywhere is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength if you want to raise their character.