Francesca Lia Block Quotes

I started digging into parts of myself that I probably ignore and don't really get to express because Common is an artist that is conscious and is aware and is trying to put a positive energy to the world.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

The only journey is the one within.

I've really taken time to dive into my heart and my emotions a little more. I think, before, I was a little nervous to open up that box and go, 'What's in there,' you know? Now, that's what's made the best music, and that's what I've been able to pull out of parts of myself that I never knew existed.

For me, Miranda has always been a much deeper character than the three-minute videos I put online.

I felt at some point that I had nothing to lose, and [laughs] maybe I was wrong. I think, you know, there's always these little autobiographical secrets behind things. I think I was really attacking my earlier self, and this kind of pretentious figure.

Perhaps the longest journey is the journey within.

The only way out is in.

Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

The characters I write about are very internal.

In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore.

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'