"We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way."

-- Audre Lorde

#Moving Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Arousal Quotes

“A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.”
“I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!”
“Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of other people, you're kind of alienated. Actors say that a lot, and I kind of find that to be true.”
“I'm me, I live from film to mouth.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.”
“Your lexicon is not entitled to slurs; it's time to retire them.”
“Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.”

Source : "Gorilla artist Anthony Browne becomes children's laureate" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2009.
“It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.”

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