"Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter."

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Betty Smith

#Suffering Quotes #Rich Quotes #Persons Quotes

“I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist.”
“There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.”

Source : Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.183, Penguin
“We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book”
“We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in power in this country-who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. And it is up to us to prove that they are wrong.”

Source : The Washington Post, p. 3, speech at University of California, Berkeley, April 3, 1970.
“Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.”

Source : Cynthia Heimel (1995). “When Your Phone Doesn't Ring, It'll be Me”, p.180, Atlantic Monthly Press
“All the great guitarists have a spirit-a way they play and don't play.”
“Face, to me, is a metaphor of sadness. And I want to share this sadness. I'm not really interested whether it's an Indian face or not - that's not as important for me. But it's still important to establish the relationships in order to bring about a consciousness of our fragility.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com

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