I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don't feel that I can even take any credit for it, but it's such a huge presence in my life. It is my life. It's my identity, it's everything. And it's given me a great deal of joy and a sense of purpose - I can't imagine my life without it.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the appreciation for one’s talents as essential elements of identity and purpose.
Emmylou Harris emphasizes the significance of her voice and abilities, regarding them not merely as skills, but as intrinsic gifts that shape her identity and provide her with immense joy and purpose. She feels a deep connection to these gifts and recognizes that they are foundational to her existence, highlighting the profound impact that art and personal expression can have on a person's life.
In practice
In a speech at an awards ceremony, one might say, 'Like Emmylou Harris, I see my talents as gifts that define who I am and bring me joy.'
You really do learn every day with every dog; they are all so unique and different. But if you're patient and you understand where they're coming from, and if you are consistent, they will be fine. They teach you to give your full attention.
Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
I find with records, they become what they're going to become. They take on a power and a direction of their own. Part of making records is to honor that and not try to force it.
There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.
I didn't have any money. I had a sense of terrible loss. But what I also had was a fire in my belly. I wasn't going to go back to waiting tables. I felt I had to be better at fronting a band.
Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.
Oh, I'm impressed with Lorraine Hansberry. She was a genius at whose feet I could sit.
Beauty's where you find it; not just where you bump and grind it.
Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.
Writers are only rarely likable.
I was 12 and read my first romance novel; it was a sweeping desert saga, and I got to the end of it and was like, 'I want to go back and start all over again!' That emotional response to the book and getting to the end of a story you love is what inspires me to write the next book.
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