Margaret Stohl Quotes

I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn't because that's who I was.

I went through this kind of existential crisis. I was going through a breakup; I tore my ACL and my meniscus and had to have surgery, so I was out of school for a few months. Then my computer crashed, which was, like, my whole life. So when I came out of it, I started making music that, I think, was the most true to me.

I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.

I have a good friend who says, "We're all just dodging bullets." It seems to me the trick to living a good life is to try to move away from the gun you turn on yourself.

I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.

Lyrically, I think I'm frustrated with this whole process of trying to figure out what I believe about the world and life. I don't like to adopt a sort of guiding philosophy.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

There is more to life than a job. I didn't ever want to look back and point to a bookshelf of videotapes and say, 'That's been my life.' It's so much easier to write a resume than it is to craft a spirit.

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

A lot of the time, I write in the third person, but I'm mostly describing my own ordeals. When those unsettled struggles prey on your mind, you become haunted. To get free, you must defeat your ghosts.

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

You should never be defined by what you do, by the things you have; you've got to define yourself by who you are and who you impact and how you impact people. And that's the thing I try to get across to my players.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.

I have the words 'love' and 'life' on my knuckles, and I would half like those removed.

The first 20 years had such a profound effect on me, I spent the next 20 dealing with them.

When you're getting older, you think about what you have to offer, and what's the point of your life.

I may be the wrong person for my life.

We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.