"I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while."

-- Delta Goodrem

#Writing Quotes #Years Quotes #Collaboration Quotes

“Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.”
“I can't be someone I'm not. I try to be a warrior on the court, but where I come from, being macho doesn't get you anywhere.”
“You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.”
“So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.”
“To think I need a gun to protect against those who'd kill me for being Muslim ... It's too bad they don't know about my true religion of noodling - a reason to get their nuts in a snit.”
“[On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes!”
“It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.”
“As Joanna Macy reminds us, "Information by itself can increase resistance [to engagement], deepening the sense of apathy and powerlessness." Stories about particular individuals and specific situations usually have the opposite effect. By giving unwieldy problems a human face, they also bring them down to a human-and thus manageable-scale.”

Source : Paul Rogat Loeb (2010). “Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times”, p.127, St. Martin's Griffin

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