"With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and decided that rather than describing the body, I would use the body, my body, as a tool for making art."

-- Janine Antoni

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“Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.”
“The mind is a very intricate machine. It can store memories, past impressions, grudges, criticisms, judgments. It can hold a lot of stuff. In general, it's only really good at holding onto one thing at a time. Which is why, when we have a lot going on, we feel sort of stressed and we feel tension because the mind is busy trying to figure out what it should focus on first.”
“What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the â€œquiet enjoymentâ€ of oneâ€™s private property was a sacred right, to a day when the so-called property â€œownerâ€ faces a hovering hoard of taxmen and regulators threatening to lien, foreclose, and â€œgo to auctionâ€ at the first sign of private defiance of their collective will ... a relationship between government and private property rights which my dictionary defines as â€œfascism.â€”
“It is not the circumstances that make a person a success. It is how that person responds to those circumstances”

Source : Aleatha Romig (2011). “Consequences”, p.35, Romig Works LLC
“I'm closest to the music when I'm onstage with the band, playing.”
“Don't go there Rule" Lawe warned him softly. " I don't think your horoscope declared today to be a good day to die.”

Source : Lora Leigh (2011). “Lawe's Justice”, p.44, Penguin
“I have never really believed that acting is very difficult. I think some people have a skill and are able to act, and if you have that natural gift, it's not difficult.”
“A king should die standing.”

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