"I donâ€™t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. [â€¦] I donâ€™t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'."

-- Bobbie Ann Mason

#Quiet Quotes #Rebellion Quotes #Angry Quotes

“Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.”
“A play presents a self-enclosed little world for the audience to examine. It's an opportunity to look objectively at a group of people, to assess them, to react to them, and to measure oneself against them, to ask 'Am I like that?'”
“Good music can act as a guide to good living.”
“Being an actor you have a lot of expenses.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I've never denied my sexual orientation. I just don't make a point of it. It isn't what I do. Clearly, I'm known for the work I've done on trade and Social Security.”

Source : "Delegates consider boycott of Kolbe speech" by Jeff Barker, www.cnn.com. August 1, 2000.
“Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft.”
“... at times they are good and quiet company, the dead; they will not interrupt your musings, but when they speak, whether they be Jews or Turks or heathens, they will speak in a tongue all can understand. there are even countries where the moving, breathing people are less intelligible, dwell in a world further apart form you, than that silent population under the earth.”

Source : Gertrude Bell (2014). “Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea”, p.147, I.B.Tauris
“Do lifelong artists pay a price for having chosen to make art? Of course. Everyone pays the price for his or her choices.”

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