"Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline."

-- Shaun McNiff

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“If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.”
“Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.”
“The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, "Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.”
“When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.”
“I'm not going to give the same energy. I am going to give more of myself. If everyone thinks like that, it's going to be something incredible.”
“If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man.”
“So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values.”
“I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.”

Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.26, BoD – Books on Demand

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