"Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony."

-- Okky Madasari

#Notebook Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The secret of staying fresh in a show is to remember that the audience you're playing for that night has never seen it before.”
“Faith is a strong word in my life. That's one thing my mother has always stressed to me.”
“He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.”
“I'm about to make people forget about Madonna.”
“You're terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.”
“My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.”
“The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words written. Such rituals provide a structure to work in, whether or not the feeling of motivation or inspiration happens to be present. They let people work alongside negative or positive emotions, instead of getting distracted by the effort of cultivating only positive ones. â€˜Inspiration is for amateurs,â€™ the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. â€˜The rest of us just show up and get to work.”
“You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it.”

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