"With me, it's much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration."

-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Trying Quotes #Matter Quotes #Collaboration Quotes

“When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.”

Source : Eve Ensler (2001). “The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition”, p.32, Villard
“A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.”
“It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.”
“This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.”
“If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.”

Source : "Dorothy Height, civil rights activist, dies at 98", www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2010.
“No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books...”

Source : Xinran (2010). “Sky Burial”, p.164, Random House
“You can't control whether or not you have talent. You can't control whether or not your work will be recognized or valued. But what you can control is how much work you put your art-both in terms of creating it and in terms of getting it out there-and that is where I try to focus my energy.”
“I never even thought the sophomore slump existed. You hear the saying, but you never thought it was for real or anything. But that's kind of what happened to us last year, and I don't know really why that is.”

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