Ananya Birla Quotes

Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.

I'm human; that's what people don't realize.

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.

You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.

I feel that if I'm going through something, I'm sure someone else is, too.

I think people found out I'm just like anybody else. I've got problems, too.

As a fan, I connect with realness. Whether it's strong or vulnerable, if it's real, I can connect with it.

I know I don't mind sharing my defects, my deficiencies, partly in the hope that someone will hear it and know that they're not alone.

I'm a real person. I have real feelings. I have real thoughts. It's a quality people like about me. They can reach out and touch me. I wouldn't give it up for anything.

I am a human being, with feelings and emotions and scars and flaws, just like anyone else.

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.

It's strange how we always want other people to feel what we feel. It must be a basic human drive. Misery loves company, right? Or when you see a movie that you love, don't you want to drag all your friends to see it as well? Because it's only good the second time if it's the first time for somebody else—as if their experience somehow resonates inside of you.

There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pain.

You do try to write songs that you feel like people can relate to and you try to be as honest as you can so that people hear your records and they feel like, "Oh, my god. This is exactly how I feel. I went through this."

I want people to see some of their own humanity no matter who they are.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.

I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.

I'm human, just like anybody else.

I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings.