"We must continue working for a better world. I want my grandchildren to live in a society with a spirit of independence, a society that puts people before profits and looks after the environment."

-- Joan Coxsedge

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“Former US president, drug baron and pedophile, George Herbert Walker Bush, incidentally, is mentioned more than any other person in my experience in relation to shape-shifting.”
“Stop torturing yourself, her friends said. Stop living in the past. He was gone. Capital G--Gone. He wasn't coming back. She should focus not on the pain, but on the possibility. Something good would come from all this heartache, something always did. Everything, her friends told her, happened for a reason. She should start looking for the silver lining. She thought she might start looking for new friends.”

Source : Aryn Kyle (2010). “Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories”, p.126, Simon and Schuster
“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
“A solid giggle should do the trick.”
“You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I was told I got 10 measly minutes, but just in case, I brought 13 hours worth of material.”
“A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control that reality. It reminds me of something Pablo Picasso was supposed to have said to Gertrude Stein while he was painting her portrait. Gertrude said, â€œI donâ€™t look like that.â€ And Picasso replied, â€œYou will.â€ And he was right.”
“I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography.”

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