"There is a hunger in this digital age to hear authors together, to participate in programs, to just be in a place, a community space."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Carla Hayden

#Space Quotes #Community Quotes #Age Quotes

“Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.”
“Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God knows what else. But if you say you have to get all A's and practice the violin for two hours, then they consider that abusive. That upsets me.”
“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”

Source : "Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 2005.
“It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.”
“Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.”

Source : Earl A. Grollman (2014). “Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love”, p.6, Beacon Press
“I have to work very hard to look the way I do. I want the girls out there to know that.”
“The truth isn't what we say, it's how we feel when we say it.”
“I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power.”

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