"There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant."

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Source : Jerzy Kosinski (2012). “Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller”, p.270, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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“I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music you can imagine from around the country - New Orleans Jazz to Indian flute players, R&B, you name it. I met and became good friends with (blues guitar player) Joe Louis Walker. He was on the show.”
“When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.”
“Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.”
“The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.”
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.”
“It's amazing the things that you cry at. I cry when I smell my son's hair in the morning. We have a moment of peace and I'll be like, 'Ahhhh! How can you love this much?'”
“Everyone has a different training style and being a female, sometimes you find you have to get really aggressive. Some people respond really well to aggression, some people don't.”

Source : "'Biggest Loser': Meet the mystery trainers!". Interview with Dan Snierson, ew.com. January 18, 2011.
“The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. I'm not extreme about what I eat.”

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