"We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other"

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John Cassavetes

#Vulnerable Quotes

“There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.”

Source : "Janis Ian's Controversial 'Society's Child'". "News and Notes" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. March 2, 2009.
“I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.”

Source : "The Bittorrent Effect" by Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. January 1, 2005.
“Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.”

Source : Alan Bennett (2008). “Writing Home”, p.193, Faber & Faber
“I was taught to fighter like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali when I was growing up.”
“The world needs all the help you can give by way of cheerful, optimistic, inspiring thought and personal example.”
“If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy. For I sought to turn thee unto love, and I implored of thee thy name, for I thought to behold in thee the tokens recounted of my mother. But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting.”
“You don't have to either choose to save the world or become a sellout. I say to people, "Listen dude, how can you save the world if you can't even save yourself? Why don't you try to affect one person's life who's in your life, and that would be historic."”
“Why not directing? There’s no big mystery about it. It’s – well, it’s just having a point of view and – and a certain amount of selection and taste.”

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