"How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way."

-- Carrie Mae Weems

#People Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Done Quotes

“A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be accompanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record.”

Source : Denise Levertov (1992). “New & Selected Essays”, p.146, New Directions Publishing
“Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.”
“I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.”

Source : Tina Modotti, Amy Rule (1986). “The Letters from Tina Modotti to Edward Weston”
“We hated the Giants. We just hated the uniform.”
“There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.”
“Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.”
“I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.”
“I'm pretty normal looking.”

Source : "DiCaprio? I wouldn't wish his life on anybody". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2002.

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