I love theater. I started in theater when I was nine years old. Stephanie Mills More Quotes by Stephanie Mills More Quotes From Stephanie Mills Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer. Stephanie Mills cat glasses prayer Seeing is a gift that comes with practice. Stephanie Mills seeing vision practice My spirituality is parochial, terrestrial. I do qualify as a W.I.T.C.H. , but my irrecular practice and impromptu rituals don't aim at producing any dramatic results except, perhaps, in me. Stephanie Mills dramatic spirituality practice Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for. Stephanie Mills possibility clock world The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place. Stephanie Mills impermanence this-life pleasure Given the diverse raiment life sports, one never knows what the guises of the gods may be. Stephanie Mills given may sports Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you. Stephanie Mills has-beens trust taken It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural commodity production, the clear-cutting of written and spoken English. Stephanie Mills vocabulary cutting past If a technology is elegant, biodegradable, made from renewable materials and employs a minimum of muscular, water or wind energy, is responsive, beautiful in its way, and challenging to the user in that it develops the user's senses and strength - it may comport with nature. Stephanie Mills technology beautiful wind Small groups have always been the locus of change. What they do, in a sometimes offhand way, is constellate new cultural forms and give birth to the unexpected. Sometimes the talk is the thing, sometimes the feeling. When we risk talking about something we really care about it's infectious. Like any good infection, such talk can produce heat, a fever of intellectual excitement. Stephanie Mills feelings talking giving What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here a while. Ideally this would call for a broad cultural rapprochment with the wild, a long overdue armistice in civilization's war upon it. Stephanie Mills war civilization long I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage. Stephanie Mills quitting never-quit trying A deep analysis judges technology morally - from its conception and intention to the totality of its consequences, knowing that all "raw materials" once were someone's home or sustenance, that extraction and manufacture at industrial scale reduce landscapes and their human beings, that distribution, employment, and disposal of technologies change lives in unpredictable ways. Stephanie Mills life-changing technology home It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality. Stephanie Mills discipline artist responsibility It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority. Stephanie Mills mom children son It's far too easy to qualify as an eccentric nowadays. Stephanie Mills eccentric easy Recent rampage is a function of the exponential growth of populations and economies. It has to do with globalization and the steady increase in computational power. Stephanie Mills population economy growth I don't drink, I don't smoke and I don't party. Stephanie Mills smoke drink party Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly counter to the market system, to land speculation, to the whole cultural attitude of regarding the Earth as commodity rather than community. It is a soft-souled science. Stephanie Mills land running attitude Therapy can help you grow. Fears will just disappear. Stephanie Mills disappear grows helping