"Writing is incredibly hard. But I want to do it. That said, I make it the top priority in every day, which for me means the first hours after getting out of bed in the morning. I've been doing it enough years now that I don't even think about waiting for my muse to show up, I just get to work."

-- Lucy Jane Bledsoe

#Morning Quotes #Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.”
“True patience is grounded in wisdom and compassion.”

Source : Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.109, Penguin
“In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer...”
“To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when you do that, then you want sneak in a lesson about history and about politics and whatever else you might think about.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Always, in every human action, there are leaders.”
“I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.”
“If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the world has ever seen.”
“Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?”

Source : Unita Blackwell, JoAnne Prichard Morris (2006). “Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom”, Crown

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