The inspiration for my Vines comes from thinking about funny and relatable experiences from my daily life.
Daily life shouldn’t be a fashion show all the time.
Most people think that it would be hard to be on a set or act for people with autism. But when you think about it, most people with autism use a script in their daily life to communicate in social situations, like at a restaurant, or you know, with a day-to-day conversation.
In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life.
Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.
I believe what matters are facts and behaviours in our daily life rather than formal gestures.
Legal arguments, particularly when they reach the highest court in the land, can be detached from daily life.
I once spent an entire night in a hotel in New York looking across the way into someone’s apartment where nothing was happening but daily life, a phone call, television watching, staring into the fridge. Seeing how those strangers lived over that small distance and in absolute silence moved me deeply.
If we practice hard enough, we can become thoroughly interested in even the simplest things of daily life, the way a child would. The smallest things would become so meaningful, they might even be worth a few words or a photograph, whatever method you use to capture them.
Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your people, and comedy is almost like a medicine to your soul in a way.
My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds – a totally different dimension from the daily life.
History is written by the victors. The victors in daily life tend to be those who live longest.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
Humor is always important. There are people who help us deal with difficulty or hardship; from the concentration camps to the court jester, there was a need for humor. As long as these kinds of things exist, with repressive regimes, you need it to deal with the weight of daily life.
Democracy is not just an election, it is our daily life.
You don’t get music in your daily life, do you? Even in a movie, it’s unnatural to have music. I always feel it’s unnatural. But I want to make it not unnatural, to construct reality in another sense.
I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.
Once you grow up in a routine life, you start looking for funny moments from daily life. I don’t know where did I get my sense of humor from but I used to joke on even small things, slowly things fall in place.
