"Everything that is good in the arts is done by some sort of diversion."

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Source : Interview with Kristopher Terrell, www.filmjerk.com. August 23, 2003.

John Roecker

#Art Quotes #Done Quotes #Art Is Quotes

“As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.”

Source : "TUC leader Frances O'Grady: 'People want some hope for the future'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2012.
“Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.”
“I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman.”
“By going into third world countries and serving, by actually feeding and helping people, I've been led to focus a little more on how people here try to be happy by ignoring other people who are unhappy.”
“You never want an Australian with his back against the wall. You put any 12 blokes together and you'll get a job done. Whether it's getting a bogged four-wheel-drive off the beach or standing in front of a cricket wicket and making sure we're in a dominant position. It's the same dog, different leg action, so to speak.”
“Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest.”
“My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.”
“Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it.... If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't be there.”

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