"I am not especially defined by my sex life, nor complete without it."

-- Paula Gunn Allen

“Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.”
“You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?”

Source : Interview with Michael Wohl, www.peachpit.com. November 1, 2001.
“The Zionist regime is an injustice and by its very nature a permanent threat. Whether you like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation. The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm.”
“Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.”
“In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's original objective, they knew now that somehow they had done much, much more than ever they set out to do.”

Source : Alfred Lansing (2015). “Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage”, p.342, Basic Books
“I'm looking for someone who will light candles, not just curse the darkness.”

Source : Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.198, Multnomah
“How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, 'No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don't care if you fire me, shoot me, pass me over for promotion, or call my mother, I will not participate in this unsavory activity.' Wouldn't world history be rewritten if just a few people had actually acted like individual free agents rather than mindless lemmings?”

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