"In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another."

-- Anna Deavere Smith

#People Quotes #Body Quotes #Way Quotes

“I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“When you fight someone, you share the experience with that one person, and you're never going to have that experience with someone else-even in another fight.”
“The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.”
“I'm not singer; every time I have the urge to sing something, I don't want to do it in front of certain people. I was always that kid afraid of failing, so I just didn't do things. I don't know how to ride a bike, I don't know how to drive. I broke out of shell a bit, and I still am. I think it's more about trying to be the full person I imagine myself to be, regardless of what that means in terms of labels, shade from people, and all of that.”

Source : "Le1f’s Riot Movement". Interview with Shayne Oliver, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.
“In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.”
“I can feel the universe expanding and making things be further apart.”
“It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.”

Source : Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.88, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning.”

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