"Don't sit back and be a bystander of your own life"

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Caprice Crane

#Bystanders Quotes

“The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.”
“Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”
“I ask myself, 'Do you want to sit on the sidelines of life or do you want to be on the field?' I suppose all those years of building thicker skin has made it easy to endure criticism.”
“I was once in a bar with a friend of mine, we were having a drink and a bunch of people walked in and they were talking about how, "It's official, there's going to be a 'Friends' reunion," and I'm sitting there with my friend going, "No, no, there's not."”

Source : "‘Friends’ creators Q&A: They just tried to make a show ‘that didn’t suck’". Interview with Bethonie Butler, www.washingtonpost.com. February 21, 2016.
“There's this great fashion among writers, especially those who follow the transnational conservatives like V.S. Naipaul, to disavow one's place in the world as a sort of box that has sprung you but is only worthy of your scorn, because it once contained you. And I've been tempted to say foolish things, like "I am an American writer" or "I belong nowhere," but the truth is I'm perfectly proud of identifying as an Indian writer, even if that might hurt my bottom line.”
“I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.”
“History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream ...”
“If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.”

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