"I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it."

-- Carol Ann Duffy

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“I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams.”
“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.”

Source : "The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are". Book by Brené Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2010.
“maybe he's falling in love with the idea of falling in love with me. Maybe he wants to be in love with someone and I've ended up in the right place at the right time.”
“There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community.”
“My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself”
“I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!”
“My mother converted when I was 16. She was the driving force behind religion in our family. So, I'm sure I was heavily influenced by that. But, I also was, and still am, convinced by the Catholic churches historical claims to represent the continuity with the early Church that other forms of Western Christianity lack.”
“People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.”

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