"I have actually seen people contemplate their navels"

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Source : John Heilpern (2013). “Conference of the Birds: The Story of Peter Brook in Africa”, p.282, Routledge

John Heilpern

#People Quotes #Navel Quotes #Contemplating Quotes

“I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.”
“You've got to figure out what it is you love - who you really are - and have the courage to do that.”
“For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!”
“I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.”
“The most important things is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.”
“Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.”
“The best books, they donâ€™t talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things youâ€™d always thought about, but you didnâ€™t think anyone else had thought about. You read them, and suddenly youâ€™re a little bit less alone in the world. Youâ€™re part of this cosmic community of people whoâ€™ve thought about this thing, whatever it happens to be.”
“After I did the drawings of trees combining them with words, I started doing - I did that for a very short time. Then it kind of - that sort of evolved into just showing the branches of a tree coming down into the trunk and then going into the root system. So I showed both the branches and the roots of a tree, which were about equal. There is as much going on under the ground as is going on above the ground, which you can see.”

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