"Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement."

-- Patricia Hill Collins

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“I knew I wanted to be an actress when I was 9 years old.”
“Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually”
“Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley.”
“I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.”
“Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.”
“The attitude of, I will never self-publish, coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.”

Source : "Our Exclusionary Attitudes Toward Self-Publishing Must Change" by Jenny Trout, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 15, 2014.
“To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, 'He leads the way, keep close to Him.'”
“Pronouns are the enemy of improv.”

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