"There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have more economic and racial segregation, places with more income inequality."

-- Gwen Ifill

#Kids Quotes #Income Quotes #Segregation Quotes

“A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes ...”
“Maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and anger, and the wrong is forgotten.”
“There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.”
“You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.”
“When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You wonder if they knew. I wondered. Doctors have told me that people do have a sense of their own approaching death.”
“[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.”
“Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.”
“You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.”

Source : Anne Bogart (2003). “A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre”, p.124, Routledge

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