"Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse."

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Source : Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.114, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

Barbara Brown Taylor

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“I never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it's fun.”
“Home is the place that goes where you go, yet it welcomes you upon your return. Like a dog overjoyed at the door. We've missed you is what you hear, no matter how long you've been gone.”

Source : Michael J. Rosen, Various (2011). “Home: A Collaboration of Thirty Authors & Illustrators”, p.6, Harper Collins
“I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules. I think there is something about a good person doing bad things for what they consider to be a good reason. Then the battle is on to almost prove to the audience that it's justified. How far can you go with that? How far can that character go before people won't accept it? Trying to walk to edge of that line is a challenge.”
“I'm a high femme lesbian who loves butch women. That erotic identity has an enormous amount to do with how I live my life, who I live my life with and what it is we can or can't do.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“A weapon is a tool," she repeated, a little breathlessly. "A tool for killing and destroying. And there will be times when, as an Envoy, you must kill and destroy. Then you will choose and equip yourself with the tools that you need. But remember the weakness of weapons. They are an extension--you are the killer and destroyer. You are whole, with or without them.”
“Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.”
“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”
“Its either feast or famine, and thats the way its been for as long as I can remember. Ive spent my whole career thinking Ill never work again. Every actor lives with that insecurity. You just have to negotiate the rapids as they come.”

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