"And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying."

-- Aretha Franklin

#Doors Quotes #Goes On Quotes #Cry Quotes

“If you want to empower anyone else in your life, you need to start living the most empowered version of yourself first!”
“Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.”

Source : Interview with Elissa Gershowitz, www.hbook.com. November 1, 2009.
“I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.”
“Thereâ€™s no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. Itâ€™s not seen as a gift. Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 â€” sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally. Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.”
“It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.”
“I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.”
“We all compromise ourselves, from time to time, because maybe it will lead to more opportunity...A ll of thatâ€™s cool, but we forget and we get caught up. If you want that nurturing, caring, empathetic, compassionate heart to keep on ticking and be around, and you want it to be strong, then donâ€™t neglect #1. One way to feed it is just being truthful and listening to your heart.”
“Athletes that can't listen, can condition.”

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