"Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to construct our lives differently so that we are able to become vehicles to transcend, to encompass and articulate not only our own experience but the experiences of others."

-- Alexis De Veaux

#Responsibility Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Sight Quotes

“When you lose people that are close to you it brings everything into focus, and the rest kind of gets put on the back burner.”
“After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.”

Source : "Queer as Folk's Gale Harold". Interview with Ilana Rapp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2014.
“I'm not wild about hand-held shots.”
“You are your dreams. Your dreams are what you can become, so don't stop dreaming and believing. Just Do It!”
“Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.”
“We are being called into realization with great urgency and extraordinary beauty, and oftentimes not without difficulty.”
“I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.”
“Sex and love are like tea and milk. They can be mixed or they can be taken straight. Each has certain distinctive characteristics, but when they are combined they form a unique substance.”

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