"For a while I felt like I spoke a different language than my immediate family. It wasn't until my teens that I met and got to know better members of my extended family (my cousin Alma in particular) that self- identified as artists. Something in us clicked together; in the way we thought, in the language we chose to use, in what we enjoyed. She helped me see and appreciate a lot both about myself and my loved ones."

Source : "LatinoBuzz Interview: E.J. Bonilla on His Hot-Blooded Performance in ‘The House That Jack Built’" by Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. November 21, 2015.

E.J. Bonilla

#Cousin Quotes #Artist Quotes #Self Quotes

“If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.”
“In warfare, there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent will succeed and win.”
“There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The world would become better off If people tried to become better. And people would become better If they stopped trying to become better off.”

Source : Peter Maurin (2010). “Easy Essays”, p.37, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Bach is the beginning and end of all music.”

Source : Max Reger, Christopher Anderson (2006). “Selected Writings of Max Reger”, p.82, Taylor & Francis
“The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest.”

Source : Bliss Carman, John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard (1904). “The World's Best Poetry ...”
“Isolation is a dream killer.”
“It's a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love.”

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