"When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth."

-- Ann Beattie

#New York Quotes #Distance Quotes #Doors Quotes

“We didn't see what happen when Marines fired M-16s... We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?”
“Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.”
“From an outsider's perspective, it's amazing what [Clint Eastwood] does. If he's not directing a film, he's acting in it, or rather he's composing the music for that film. His commitment to what he does is astounding for all of us to witness. It's inspiring, actually.”
“If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.”
“I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you.”
“Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.”
“Love can be sent to others in a thousand ways. Even thoughts of love can change things. They can be felt. By you, and by the person you are thinking of, too. Yes, they can. Help others by by loving them, simply, plainly, openly, without condition.”
“What gets measured gets done, what gets measured and fed back gets done well, what gets rewarded gets repeated”

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