"Only when you leave do you appreciate what binds American people and our cultural experience together."

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Jess Row

#People Quotes #Appreciate Quotes #Together Quotes

“Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.”

Source : "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.
“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on”
“When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win?”
“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.”
“When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered cow hanging in a butcher shop as well as disturbingly appealing.”

Source : Isabella Rossellini (1997). “Some of Me”, Random House Incorporated
“I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.”

Source : Mercedes McCambridge (1981). “The quality of mercy: an autobiography”, Crown
“The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.”
“I confess to being something of a philosophical butterfly. The world is full of so many interesting questions, and although my greatest passion is for some form of applied ethics, that leaves me with oodles of possibilities, many of which I have never had the time or opportunity to explore in great depth.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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