"Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally.Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and secondâ€”if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity."

-- Carl Schmitt

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“It's taken me years of practice to learn how to act natural.”

Source : Craig Clevenger (2014). “The Contortionist’s Handbook”, p.17, HarperCollins UK
“How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.”
“Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I charged, the easier it was for them to breathe freely once more.”

Source : Tama Janowitz (1991). “Slaves of New York”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
“I hate the word 'hippy.'”
“Right now in American writing there is no genre as exciting as memoir - the writer can do anything, as long as it works. It's like the 1920s up in this joint. So, I'd say, experiment with how you tell the story. In the best memoir it's not the what, it's how the writer tells the what - meaning and effect through form.”
“I'd sit on a horse and forget I was even sick.”
“What happens in animation is that you don't really start the story until you're boarding it, which usually means that you've gotta go through some sort of a script phase. And you can get caught in the doldrums there, overdeveloping that, when you don't really know what you have until you put it up in storyboards.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The healthiest response to life is joy.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 9, 2012

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