"What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to not only make people feel good and inspired and at one with other people around them, but also has to educate a new generation to do this very modest thing: change the world."

-- Howard Zinn

#Writing Quotes #Play Quotes #People Quotes

“The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Dec 12, 2014
“Many great writers address audiences who do not exist; to address passionately and sometimes with very great wisdom people who do not exist has this advantage - that there will always be a group of people who, seeing a man shouting apparently at somebody or other, and seeing nobody else in sight, will think it is they who are being addressed.”
“True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.”

Source : bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.229, Routledge
“I like that Helen Mirren has been saying the next doctor should be a woman. I would like to go on record and say that the queen should be played by a man.”
“Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.”

Source : Lesley K. Baier, Walker Evans, Jewett Arts Center (Wellesley, Mass.) (1977). “Walker Evans at Fortune, 1945-1965, Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 16 November, 1977-23 January, 1978”
“I am a one success man.”
“Let's use that to make as interesting and different and unique a story as possible and not just stay with the same thing.' And this movie is certainly the embodiment of that.”

Source : Source: screenrant.com
“Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.”

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