"Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously - I have to do it sequentially. When I write incessantly, I lose touch with the issues and passions that fuel the work. But when I get too involved in organizations or movement endeavors, I almost forget that I'm a writer. It's a constant struggle to find a balance between these two worlds - the solitary writing life and the life of a social justice activist."

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#Struggle Quotes #Live Life Quotes #Passion Quotes

“Why would anybody not own a gun?”

Source : "USA TODAY survey: More Republicans in Congress own guns" by Paul Singer and Gregory Korte, www.usatoday.com. February 5, 2013.
“Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung”

Source : "'Le Barbier de Séville' ('The Barber of Seville')". Play by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Act I, scene 2, 1775.
“I've crippled more people than polio.”
“You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.”
“Nothing can happen if it's not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.”
“I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me. I don't feel it in myself but from an outsider's point of view, I can see they must be thinking, "Who the hell does this guy think he is?" But recently I've been thinking, okay, a white guy can't sing soul, but would a black person be made exempt from singing opera because it's not a tradition that belongs to them? It's the same kind of argument.”
“I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn't very easy for anybody. He's made it successful on top of that.”
“I listen to new music by composers who are interesting to me. I listen to some; I don't know if I want to call it pop, but it's some interesting artist that gets my attention, I listen to in the mornings.”

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