"This is New York, a combat zone, and everyone has to have an angle or they're not allowed over the bridges or through the tunnels. Let them have their angles, it's what they live for. You've got better things to worry about, like making sure the people that actually matter don't try any funny stuff."

-- Cynthia Heimel

#New York Quotes #Tunnels Quotes #Bridges Quotes

“Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of the chaos from which it is drawn can breathe and have a life of its own”

Source : Elizabeth Grosz (2012). “Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth”, p.16, Columbia University Press
“Conversion is a daily thing.”
“Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each other's presence we exchange our cells, pass on some of our lifeforce, and then we go on carrying that person in our body, not unlike springtime when certain plants in fields we walk through attach their seeds in the form of small burrs to our socks, our pants, our caps, as if to say, 'Go on, take us with you, carry us to root in another place.' This is how we survive long after we are dead. This is why it is important who we become, because we pass it on.”
“Courageous people feel the same fear everyone else does, they just decide to not be afraid anymore.”
“From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds.”
“A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.”
“After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.”

Source : CNN's profile, www.cnn.com.
“For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.”

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