"Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually."

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Dalai Lama

#Country Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Lying Quotes

“When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.”

Source : "Tilting at Tree Bags" by Ian Frazier, www.motherjones.com. January 2001.
“Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the way people have settled down to living with nuclear fission, radiation poisoning, hydrogen bombs, satellites, and space rockets.”
“Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.”
“PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.”
“Never have children, only grandchildren.”
“Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As if by magic, masks fall away, faces become vulnerable, receptive. Filmgoers do not defend their emotions, rather they open to the storyteller in ways even their lovers never know, welcoming laughter, tears, terror, rage, compassion, passion, love, hate--the ritual often exhausts them.”

Source : Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.7, Harper Collins
“If you just had an inspiration at night or with a girl or whatever and you want to talk about it, you don't necessarily want to share it with everybody . . . That's the first thing that made me want to go solo; I wanted to talk about my own things, I wanted to try to be creative [in] my own way.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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