"The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

James Mercer

#People Quotes #Inspire Quotes #Insecurity Quotes

“You've got to respond to the fans, and play well, or people will jump on you. They'll read something and jump on you.”

Source : Source: articles.latimes.com
“I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.”
“. . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.”
“In 1979, you had the revolution in Iran. You had the Hudood Ordinances in Pakistan, which are the laws that are notoriously used against women, which are theoretically used against thieves although they're never carried out - an actual amputation or an actual stoning. The blasphemy laws, again, never actually carried out, though they're there, heavy with menace on the statute books.”
“Most people call my style of dress slovenly, I call it extreme casual. If I didn't have a mother and a sister for the times I do have to get dressed, I would be absolutely lost.”
“For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.”
“True Socialism, in which everyone is truly equal, does not just resemble a prison - it is a prison. It can not exist unless it is surrounded by high walls, by watchtowers and by guard-dogs, for people always want to escape from any socialist regime, just as they do from a prison. If you continue your attempts to establish a model society you will need to build walls around it. You will be forced to do so sooner or later by the flood of refugees..”

Source : "Inside the Soviet Army". Book by Viktor Suvorov, 1982.
“Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.”

Source : Frank Auerbach, Hayward Gallery, Fruit Market Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain (1978). “Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978”

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