"An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role."

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Source : Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

Eleanor Robson Belmont

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“When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.”
“Im high maintenance, but Im worth it.”
“My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color were what they cared about most in the world.”

Source : "How Jezebel Smashes the Patriarchy, Click by Click". Interview with Tasneem Raja, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2013.
“The problem is that for almost any feature of humanity that you can name, whether it's the ability to suffer, whether it's the capacity to reason, whether it's having lives that can go better or worse, there are at least some other non-human animals that have all of these features as well. So to exclude non-human animals from the range of moral concern but to include all humans, just seems morally arbitrary.”
“A person is no more & no less than the Story of his Passions & Deeds.”
“I'm never trying to be commercial or accessible, or saying "let's do this weird stuff, but at the same time we gotta do this safe stuff".”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I pray that no missionary will ever be as lonely as I have been.”
“When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, strategic partnerships, executive team, and relationships with every last constituency.”

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