"The status quo is never news, only challenges to it."

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Source : Malorie Blackman (2008). “Knife Edge”, p.288, Random House

Malorie Blackman

#Challenges Quotes #News Quotes #Status Quo Quotes

“One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.”

Source : "'Northern Exposure' ('Cicely')". Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, May 18, 1992.
“Unless you connect to the text, the audience won't be able to connect with you.”

Source : "A working life: The voice coach". Interview with Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.
“Of course I had the parallel of having the early years of my life being spent during apartheid, and then having a lot of awful poverty going on around me while I lived in this bubble of middle-classness, but I was a child, and I only really started to (I hope) understand all of that fairly recently.”
“If you give anybody the chance, they can always make a decent human being out of themselves. It's the people that don't have a chance, that we look down at like they're monsters or they're animals or that they want something different than the rest of us.”

Source : "Ice Cube talks Are We There Yet?, xXx 2, life in the hood and more!". Interview, movieweb.com. January 20, 2005.
“They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.”
“Every challenge is a disguised opportunity for salvation.”
“Vladimir Putin is a Russian czar. He's kind of a mix of Peter the Great and Stalin. He's got both in his veins. And he looks out first and foremost for the national security interests of Russia. He accepts that, in Eastern Europe, that is a Russian backyard, that is a Russian sphere of influence. Ukraine lives most uncomfortably and unhappily in a Russian backyard.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.”

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