Becoming a mom makes politics real. Whether it’s education policies, health care policies, family leave – it informs your decision-making.
I can’t imagine not being able to read and write, or make these connections from literature and philosophy that have helped inform my understanding of evolution.
I would wish eventually to be able to make television that informs and educates as well as entertains.
Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do.
I don’t think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it’s to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
It’s impossible to leave our emotions and experiences outside the work place – they inform us and make us who we are.
The point of what I do is that it doesn’t really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.
Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.
In 2015, our government will make no apologies for using innovative ways to inform Canadians of the terrific enhanced benefits to which they are entitled.
Many of my clients have become close friends, and that informs the clothing I design for them. Julianna Margulies was introduced to me by her publicist many years ago, and we’ve been good friends ever since.
As an artist, I’ve always felt most comfortable outside of the art supply store. So domestic materials are the ones that most help inform what I’m trying to talk about and our familiarity as a whole – kind of the collective us, I guess.
I think everything within film and TV helps inform every other role, so it’s definitely helped my acting, being on the other side of the camera, and it’s just given me a whole new appreciation for how hard everybody in the crew works.
As a media member, my goal is to inform the American fans of persons of character. It’s a joy for me, either writing a good story or telling a story on video.
Chefs have a new opportunity – and perhaps even an obligation – to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.
It always struck me that Africa was, in a strange way, a futuristic place and had elements and vibes and spirits that were going to inform the future. Africa Express is an attempt to engage that power outside Africa, and for everyone to benefit from it.
For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.
The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.
There are hundreds of fine journalists who regularly inform us of what is happening in the world around us; and innumerable commentators who provide intelligent and objective insight on public policy matters.
It is repugnant to an American to inform upon his fellow citizens.
I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.
Scientifically, information is a choice – a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world – writing, painting, music, money.
I feel really fortunate and grateful that not only do I get to do what I love, but I get to do it and serve a conversation that I feel is necessary culturally. The fact that I get to bring those two passions together is amazing to me – that I get to use my art in order to inform my activism and vice versa!
Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there’s a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what’s wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they’re inseparable.
My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.
Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported.
I think Tupac was more someone who was trying to inform us about what was going on, and he did it through entertainment.
I spent the first 16 years of my life in Scotland. My whole family is there. It’s in my blood and informs my sense of humour, my point of view, the people I choose to spend time with, everything.
My purpose has broadened. My purpose now is to help as many people rise as possible, and it doesn’t matter whether they’re women or men. But that sense of value that we have as individuals, I think informs us and helps us to treat each other better.
To help inform my work in Congress, I consistently need to gather information about the healthcare challenges facing Central Virginia patients, providers, and local officials on the ground.
There’s something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it’s what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.
I think TV, films, and the stage inform each other. It’s good to go back and forth.
While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.
My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
Ram Gopal Varma had signed me for ‘Satya’ and two days before the shoot, I was dropped out of the film. He didn’t even have the decency to call me or my manager and inform me about the reality. I learnt from the press that he had begun shooting without me.
I’m trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information.
At the end of April I archived ‘Curses’ and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.
It’s government’s role to inform us of risks and let us use personal responsibility to evaluate that risk ourselves.
My faith, and especially my faith as a Catholic, does inform me and does guide me.
Emotions don’t disrupt our rational thinking but guide and inform it. But they are missing from our digital experience. Your smartphone knows who you are and where you are, but it doesn’t know how you feel. We aim to fix that.
To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life’s outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.
Every Mother Counts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother. We inform, engage, and mobilize audiences to take action and raise funds that support maternal health programs around the world.
The name of my first comedy album was ‘Raised by Cable.’ Coming up and watching all of these weird movies on different channels was such an influence on me and an influence on how I do standup. It informs everything I do.
I give it to The Based God who really informs me and gives me that gut instinct and the power to say who’s cursed or not. It just comes from a pure place, just trying to bring peace and positivity and love and also awareness.
I see a lot of art; we see a lot of music, films at Sundance… that influences me and informs me more than theater just because I make a bigger effort to see other art forms.
I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people.
You get to crack the code of the play. You get to really pick at it and see, ‘What is the story that we’re telling?’ ‘What are the clues in the text that I can find that will help inform what story we’re telling?’ It’s almost like a detective mystery.
You boil down your influences to a soup, and it all informs you.
My half-breed culture informs everything I do but I’m not thinking about it. I’m just doing it. Not until very late in my career did I realize that I was so fortunate to just live with this profound pride in being half Mexican without being attacked for it.
Anything I do informs how I design. I wouldn’t isolate any one activity. Everything I do feeds back to my life, and my life is expressed in my work.
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.
You have to let the costume inform you.
Science can and should inform debate about abortion and the law. But science does not resolve questions of moral value and moral choice.
