"We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we donâ€™t see God right in front of us, in the beggar, the starving child, the brokenhearted woman; in our friend; in the cat; in the flea. We miss it, and in missing it, we allow the world to be destroyed."

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Source : "The Ordinary Decency Of The Heart". Interview with Andrew Lawler, www.thesunmagazine.org. May 2008.

Andrew Harvey

#Children Quotes #Cat Quotes #Reality Quotes

“If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.”
“The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“But miracles still happen, even if we don't think they do.”
“Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person. That is what Christian love is.”
“Like all silent men, I am an incessant talker. I talk so much in an endless monologue in my own mind, explaining meself to meself, explaining things (in me own mind) to your aunt, answering back customers (in me own mind) and talking to beautiful women about my soul (in me own mind) and addressing huge cheering crowds about my ideas on how the country should be run (in my imagination) that when it comes to loosening me mortal tongue in reel life, sure there's not an ounce of talk left in me.”
“I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.”
“Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions”
“There were class differences among black people then and there are class differences among black people now. There is still an assumption among many people in American society that being black is its own class, a blanket class. That, I believe, is an erroneous and deeply offensive view.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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