"Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors."

-- John Ralston Saul

#Leader Quotes #Risk Quotes #Pushing Quotes

“I can start with the idea of taking until you can take off, through the idea that all of my writing foregrounds the idea of how I'm taking from my own life. I'm stealing from my own life in a way, and from the people around me, but in service of getting somewhere else. I'm starting with an autobiographical impulse, to get a better vantage on the circumstances of the life that I happen to be in at the moment and how that life connects to others.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.”
“If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity with the city. It has some wonderful locations and it is devastatingly vast and huge. Central Park looks amazing on camera.”
“My grandfather was a Holocaust survivor and his life and history were very formative to myself and my family. The almost unimaginable dichotomy between the different eras of his life always crushed my brain on some level. That this guy who was shoveling carob chips out of a barrel and restocking yogurt popsicles could also have those numbers on his arm. It was an inconceivable juxtaposition. His experience was the main window for our family into any kind of social consciousness, or sense of history, or politics, even though a lot of it went unsaid.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.”

Source : "How to make stress your friend". The TED Interview, www.ted.com. June, 2013.
“I collect a lot of clothes when I travel around the world.”
“My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.”

Source : Tahir Shah (2009). “In Arabian Nights”, p.141, Random House
“Then he reached up and tore my shirtfront open. "Not much to see, is there?" I said, struggling to talk with a crushed windpipe. "I know, I know, they can fix things like that these days. Call me a feminist, but I think a woman's worth should be defined not by the size of her bust, but - " I rammed my fist up into his Adam's apple. He grunted and stumbled back. "- by the strength of her right hook.”

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