"I'd like the world to know that I would do what I do for no money. If I could trade my comedy for food, I'd walk into a grocery store and give them 15 minutes for $100 worth of groceries. My passion is beyond the financial. I don't think people are aware of that about me. I'm not a flashy guy, and I want people to know that whatever they do is just as important as my craft."

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Source : Source: www.theskanner.com

DeRay Davis

#Passion Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.”
“In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes.”
“I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.”

Source : "The Miller's tale". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2004.
“Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.”
“Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black slavery, and YET praise the benefits to Germans or Whites??? This convenient ambiguity at the expense of animals is unacceptable!!!”
“I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.”

Source : “Action Heroine” by Karen Durbin, www.elle.com. June 10, 2009.
“He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.”
“I am willing to learn how to take good care of my body.”

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