". . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death"

“You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.”

“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back”

Source : The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money bk. 6, ch. 24 (1936)

“I stay healthy - I mean, I've got a sports background and an athletic background. I was in competitive sports since the age of five. I was a personal trainer before I was an actor and a personal trainer for the first few years while I was acting and getting my thesis.”

“Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.”

“The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.”

“The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.”

“I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.”

“There's 67 percent of women that are in this plus-size world that we live in. And that's over half of the women in the world. So why are we not dressing for [them]?”

Source : "Danielle Brooks, Gabourey Sidibe and More Dance in Lingerie to Prove 'This Body Is Beautiful'". Interview with Colleen Kratofil, people.com. October 04, 2016.