"It's important to learn the right lessons from the past."

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Source : Source: www.theguardian.com

Douglas Alexander

#Past Quotes #Important Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“I've always been shocked that people that I'm actually flying with say, 'Oh, I feel safer on the plane with you.' I'm thinking, 'You must not watch the show because everybody around me gets killed.'”
“You're a kid, your whole life is awesome. It's awesome, right? You had no money, no ID, no cell phone, no nothing, no keys to the house. You just ran outside into the woods. You weren't scared of nothing. I challenge you to do that as an adult. All your IDs, all your credit cards - just run out of the house with no phone, turn the corner where you can't see your house, and not have a full on panic attack.”
“I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'”

Source : "A few words from Richard Jeni". www.cnn.com. March 12, 2007.
“sooner or later the universe usually provides lessons of humility to those who need it the most.”
“In avant garde drama ... primitivism goes hand in hand with aesthetic experimentation designed to advance the technical progress of the art itself by exploring fundamental questions: What is a theatre? What is a play? What is an actor? What is a spectator? What is the relation between them all? What conditions serve this best?”

Source : C. D. Innes (1993). “Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992”, p.3, Psychology Press
“They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of articulating a second, poetic geography on top of the geography of the literal, forbidden or permitted meaning. They insinuate other routes into the functionalist and historical order of movement. Walking follows them: 'I fill this great empty space with a beautiful name.'”

Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.105, Univ of California Press
“The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.”
“I'm not focused on the outrageousness. I'm just focused on being funny, and raising my kids. I don't even read the newspaper, I don't read that crap.”

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