"Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager."

-- Susan Sontag

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“Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away.”
“Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?”
“I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.”
“I don't use the phrase 'I love you' very often, but I say it every time I talk to my children.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world.”

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“Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.”
“Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter - bliss or nonbliss - possesses a tremendous depth and beauty that we usually miss.”

Source : Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.65, New World Library
“Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.”

Source : Bette Greene (2000). “Summer of my German soldier”

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