If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.
I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.
Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.
Baseball is so performance-based. It's what have you done for me lately. I can get a lot of pressure and you can feel that, but if your life is given to God and your into Jesus there's really no pressure because at the end of the day your life is in His control and you surrender to that.
I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero.
My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
Our vision of war is probably too influenced by the biggest one of all, World War II, where the forces of evil were so unambiguous and so relentless that there was no choice but to commit to total war and to demand unconditional surrender. Seldom, though, is it quite that clear cut.
Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes.
