"I am the result of a loving upbringing in a peaceful country, with wonderful parents and siblings, a very long-term relationship, stability, support - but a feeling that life isn't always just and that there is injustice for people and we should do something about it."

-- Michael Kirby

#Country Quotes #Motivation Quotes #Sibling Quotes

“What I'm most fascinated by is the ability of art to induce changes, but remain grounded solidly in its art practice.”
“Boredom!!! Shooting!!! Shelling!!! People being killed!!! Despair!!! Hunger!!! Misery!!! Fear!!! That's my life! The life of an innocent eleven-year-old schoolgirl!! A schoolgirl without a school, without the fun and excitement of school. A child without games, without friends, without the sun, without birds, without nature, without fruit, without chocolate or sweets, with just a little powdered milk. In short, a child without a childhood.”

Source : Zlata Filipović (1994). “Le journal de Zlata”, Viking Adult
“Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.”

Source : Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.1, Northwestern University Press
“Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.”
“The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.”
“I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.”
“Read, listen to and watch everything you can. Explore the corners of popular culture and the arts. And, of course, these days you have to stay maniacally plugged in to the cutting edge of whatever technology is taking your profession into the future - otherwise you're toast.”
“The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.”

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