"Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists."

-- Larry Kramer

#Taken Quotes #Artist Quotes #Activist Quotes

“I'm very focused on "Dexter" right now. I want to make it as good of a show as we can.”
“There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.”
“If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.”
“The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didnt have, I love Frank on it, it had, I love AC/DC, Guns N Roses, Pearl Jam. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.”
“You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.”
“It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.”

Source : Miles Franklin (1984). “The End of My Career”
“The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.”

Source : Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1859). “Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented”, p.146
“If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.”

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