"To be honest, I am not theatre-trained and though I am confident in my skill set, to do theatre requires a better-tuned set of muscles and I sometimes defer to actors who are better trained. But at the times I do want a shot, I'll go for it, especially if the piece speaks to me and the opportunity comes up. The immediate response from a theatre audience is so thrilling, affirming, and soul-feeding; to know how you've affected an audience at curtain can be ego-blowing, both good and bad."

-- Tamlyn Tomita

#Opportunity Quotes #Theatre Quotes #Honest Quotes

“Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.”
“In college, unable to be "special" - or in demand - as a girl, I made myself useful, even essential, in my microcosm - as a writer and photographer for the band, particularly for the band director. My "specialness" was to produce something of value, not to look like something (with that different kind of "value"), so I was still fundamentally invisible, but had a significant purpose.”

Source : "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.
“We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth - our larger body - to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters of our waking hours , stirring them back, as dreams, into the sleeping substance of our muscles.”
“What hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want ebola in America?”
“The only place where David Duke and I are alike is we are both wizards under the sheets.”
“It dosnt matter how many mr. and mrs. johnsons are anti war- the actuall killers who know how to use the weapons are not.”
“I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly different approach.”

Source : "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.
“I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.”

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