"I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world."

-- Ken Livingstone

#Country Quotes #Rights Quotes #Lectures Quotes

“I think my comedic style is at once bashful and explosive. It's a little bit perverted, and a little bit ladylike and old-fashioned, which is a great mix. Sort of tangy.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.”
“For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots, they both carry along and are carried along by people, who are not merely passengers of history, but pilots as well.”

Source : Doug McAdam (1988). “Freedom Summer”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.”

Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
“Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time.”
“Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.”
“No, I don't think you're ever an objective observer. By making a frame you're being selective, then you edit the pictures you want published and you're being selective again. You develop a point of view that you want to express. You try to go into a situation with an open mind, but then you form an opinion, and you express it in your photographs.”

Source : Interview with Constance Sullivan, www.americansuburbx.com. 1990.

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