Liane Moriarty Quotes

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.

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

As I lived on in America, I got to truly know the people of this country - so many kind and wonderful people, people of so many races - who helped me in so many ways. Who became my friends. I realized that underneath our different accents, habits, foods, religions, ways of thinking, we shared a common humanity.

And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, but it's much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities.

Meeting people from different countries makes you realise that everyone around the world has the same needs and aspirations.

I want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equally implicated with whatever is wrong with the culture.

I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.

All mothers go through the exact same things.

What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide.

I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.

It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.

It's cool to be able to relate to people who aren't necessarily from the same way of life as me or don't even maybe know what I'm talking about in some of my songs. It's just cool that music has that ability to do that.

TV can be a thread between all of us, and it can be a powerful tool to examine life and love and what we all have in common as humans.

Any relationship, I'm talking about even with your kids, when you got something they can relate to - both of y'all - it helps.

Empathy is choosing to see ourselves in another despite our differences. It's recognizing that the same humanity - the same desire for meaning, fulfillment and security - exists in each of us, even if it's expressed uniquely.

There's always some difference between your Latino and African-American communities. But we definitely have more similarities than differences.

The wonderful thing about the theater is that it can emphasize BOTH our diversity AND our common humanity. In many ways, the world of Shakespeare (or Aeschylus or Racine) is totally different from our world; and yet any human being can look through the differences in dress and mores and discover our common problems, passions, and potentials.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

Things that feel super personal actually feel really universal. It's sort of the more you really identify something specific within yourself, the more people connect to it because ultimately we are all connected in some way.

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

I'm glad that the lyrics reach people and make them understand that we're all the same, really.

If I were blind I'd rather have another blind person leading me around because they know what I'm dealing with and they're experiencing the same things.

The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of tribes that can never understand each other, but that we're, rather, one common humanity that can meet and learn and love each other.

I think humor is a really important way of creating solidarity - like, through humor you can make people realize that certain situations, where they thought they were alone, are actually shared by everyone.