"I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is, a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film, than feeling like you've achieved that."

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Source : "Ruth Negga: 'I'm not in any rush to get anywhere'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2012.

Ruth Negga

#Art Quotes #People Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Something the committee had not done in 50 years. Jeff Sessions is now the Chairman of the Committee that rejected him.”
“[As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.”
“I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.”

Source : "Arthur Miller's Daughter Humanizes Playwright in New Documentary" by Glenn Garvin, reason.com. March 16, 2018.
“Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.”

Source : Marjorie Holmes (1995). “Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...”, Bbs Publishing Corporation
“I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.”
“Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.”
“The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed.”

Source : "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.
“Today I release the need to blame anyone, including myself.”

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