"Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body."

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Source : Laura Joh Rowland (2007). “The Concubine's Tattoo”, p.229, Macmillan

Laura Joh Rowland

#Mind Quotes #Body Quotes #Dull Quotes

“All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.”
“Who but lovers dream alike?”
“Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155).”

Source : Mark Salzman (2007). “True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall”, p.155, Vintage
“The fascinating thing about the studio was that there was no story department. They would put a little notice up on the bulletin board saying: 'The next Oswald will take place at the North Pole. Anybody having any gags, please turn them in before such a date.' If you turned in gags regularly, the way Tex Avery, Cal Howard, Jack Carr and two or three others of us did, you'd be called into the gag meeting. The group would go into Walt's office and talk about whatever the subject of the cartoon was. Walt would put it into some kind of form and that was the story--no scripts, no storyboards.”
“This is a record I ended up having to make to get on to the next stage of my life. What I did was a desperate thing to do. I'm aware of the fact that it was irrational. I didn't mean to make it sound like it was my master plan. The tour had even been going all right, but I was just kind of fed up with the situation as it was, playing the same old rock and roll crap that everyone goes through, the general moaning when you really should be grateful that you don't work in the checkout counter at the grocery.”
“I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.”
“All children accomplish milestones in their own way, in their own time.”
“I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.”

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