"Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity."

-- Lyndon B. Johnson

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“With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.”

Source : "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.
“When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.”
“What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.”

Source : John Gardner, Allan Richard Chavkin (1990). “Conversations with John Gardner”, p.16, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.”
“A meat temperature gauge is a priceless tool. You can get a very inexpensive one at most hardware or sporting goods stores, which will easily help you determine the temperature of your meat so it is not over or undercooked. Pork is normally done at about 160, internal temperature. Steaks are cooked medium rare from 145 to 150. 165, medium. Well done is about 175, internal temperature.”
“A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.”
“The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.”
“A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.”

Source : Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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