"I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes."

-- Brenda Ueland

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“It's high time that Christians made up their minds to do something . . . What are we going to show in the way of resistance-as compared to the Communists, for instance-when all this terror is over? We will be standing empty-handed. We will have no answer when we are asked: What did you do about it?”
“The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.”
“I like the idea that we can contain our weirdness, but I prefer it when we wear it all over ourselves.”

Source : Kelly Oxford (2013). “Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar”, p.9, Harper Collins
“One Negro meeting another at an all-white cocktail party cannot but wonder how the other got there. The question is: Is he for real? Or is he just kissing ass? Almost all Negroes, are almost always acting, but before a white audience - which is quite incapable of judging their performance.”
“I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again.”
“But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.”

Source : Howard Zinn (2012). “Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009”, p.299, Haymarket Books
“I feel like all I've done lately is play really sexually-charged drug addicts. I don't know what's wrong with me. I've gotta go to Disneyland more and get more excitement.”

Source : Susan Strasberg (1992). “Marilyn and Me-21.95”, Smithmark Publishers
“Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.”

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