"I find myself moved by social justice issues. I'm not sure where that will lead me. I'm willing to nurture it."

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Source : "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

Eden Robinson

#Issues Quotes #Justice Quotes #Social Quotes

“Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".”
“There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by the importance of colonialism in Europe's past. So for Europeans we are like Belgiums in the Congo, or the French in Alger, or the British in India. Strange interlopers in somebody else's land. But in fact, we [Israeli] have been here for 4,000 years. This is our ancestral homeland.”
“My daughter lived with my wife being ill since she was 2.”
“There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.”

Source : FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Jan 20, 2016
“When I was young I used to practice a martial art that was a mixture of karate, kung fu, Jujitsu, Yawara Kubotan, Aikido, Okinawan kobudo, Newaza, etc.; now I am just a theoretical samurai or a bushido scholar if you prefer.”
“I want you to like me, but I don't care if you don't.”

Source : "Olivia Munn's DOs and DON'Ts" by Olivia Munn, www.glamour.com.
“When you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, but if you don't have a distributor, you are sitting in your living room with a great little film.”
“You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.”

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