"Our pain is a part of who we authentically are."

--

Source : "Dani Shapiro: 7 Places Where Your Pain Hides" by Dani Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013.

Dani Shapiro

“The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.”
“I'm never afraid to try something if I think it's funny. And I know I'll regret it if I don't.”
“Mancini is lucky. He has an owner [Sheikh Mansour] who speaks little and asks only: "What do you need?"”
“The greatest weapon we have against evil is doing good in Jesus' name.”

Source : Kay Warren (2010). “Say Yes to God: A Call to Courageous Surrender”, p.108, Zondervan
“The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.”
“As an artist who lives here and wants a more sophisticated engagement between local social dynamics and global discourse, it's great to see that reflected via the relationships we've developed with our customers. For some people it's a political act to eat from us three days a week because they recognize they are financially supporting the premise of the project each time they come. 95% of our annual revenue is purely from the public via food sales.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I think of a movie as a human body. You can feel the pump of the heart and the blood going through the veins when you watch that scene.”

Source : Source: www.rogerebert.com
“We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.”

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