"Every character is asking: Whats my place? Why am I here? I dont want the answer to be Just because. You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute."

-- Sharon Creech

#Character Quotes #Asking Quotes #Answers Quotes

“I heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, 'She must have provoked him,' or, 'Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make a fight.' They had no idea. The truth is my mother did nothing to deserve the violence she endured. She did not provoke my father, and even if she had, violence is an unacceptable way of dealing with conflict. Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.”

Source : "Patrick Stewart: the legacy of domestic violence" by Patrick Stewart, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2009.
“The people around you are you. They share your history. They can even write it with you. And when you lose one, there's no doubt you lose some of yourself, however they're lost.”
“I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people.”
“And to me, that is the greatest danger, that people start questioning basic facts and start not understanding the importance of democratic institutions such as the free press. I mean, to call the press the enemy is dangerous and just remarkably bizarre. The press is the only profession protected in the Constitution because of how important the framers viewed the press. But in authoritarian regimes, they control the press. And to me, going down an authoritarian path is the greatest danger that we face as a republic.”
“I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.”
“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.”
“The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.”
“All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out of them so white people can go on holiday there.”

Source : "Call of the wild" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2007.

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