"Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence."

-- Lena Dunham

#Survivor Quotes #Demand Quotes #Innocence Quotes

“Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.”
“At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.”

Source : "An Electric Return for Jeff Lynne". Interview with Paul Clinton, edition.cnn.com. September 03, 2001.
“Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”
“When I first got to the majors in 2004, female fans held up signs asking me to marry them. Those girls today were what, 13, 14? I'm 23, but that's a little young even for me.”

Source : "Prince of the City". Sports Illustrated, May 22, 2006.
“My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.”

Source : 'The Young Visiters' (1919) ch. 8
“I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.”

Source : "Carrie Ann Inaba Picks Her Ultimate DWTS Contestant, and Admits: 'I've Thrown Up Before Every Show'" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. March 27, 2012.
“For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.”
“The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting.”

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