"I donâ€™t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise."

-- Etty Hillesum

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“I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.”
“When we're being grateful it means that we're acknowledging that life is a gift, that life is a blessing, that this body is only here for a short period of time and it really shifts the whole internal landscape of the mind and it puts things into perspective and it allows us to get our bearings. To get a firm footing in what's real, and then go from there.”
“Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment.”

Source : "What's the ROI on Your Day? Amy Jo Martin on Passion and Innovation". Interview with Leslie Bradshaw, www.forbes.com. January 26, 2012.
“We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.”
“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
“I do photography and I studied film at school. So I've always really enjoyed that and I've got an eye for camera angles I guess. I've never taken that into filming wildlife.”

Source : Source: www.justjared.com
“The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful--and possibly the only--help that can be given.”
“Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.”

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