"I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back."

-- Patti LaBelle

#Interviews Quotes #Laid Back Quotes #Performing Quotes

“I felt like the track came to us, but then it went beyond us.”
“Reading for pleasure isnâ€™t separate from learning to read.”
“Insofar as the genocide embodied in residential schooling arises as an integral aspect of colonialism, then colonialism must be seen as constituting that source... To be in any way an apologist for colonialism is to be an active proponent of genocide.”

Source : "Kill the Indian, Save the Man". Book by Ward Churchill, 2004.
“I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.”
“What can I expect here? You know the fairy tale about the man who died, donâ€™t you? He was waiting in Eternity to find out what the Lord had decided to do with him. He waited and waited, for one year, ten years, a hundred years. He begged and pleaded for a decision. Finally he couldnâ€™t bear the waiting any longer. Then they said to him: â€˜What do you think youâ€™re waiting for? Youâ€™ve been in Hell for a long time already.”

Source : Anna Seghers (2013). “Transit”, p.186, New York Review of Books
“I strive to be brief, and become obscure.”
“There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, wonâ€™t let us look anywhere else in the room if thereâ€™s a map on the wall.”

Source : Ken Jennings (2012). “Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
“Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.”

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