"Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less."

-- Simon Mawer

#Sin Quotes #Absence Quotes

“Creativity is not the cleverÂ rearrangingÂ of the known.”
“When faced with something I fear, I tend to eat spaghetti.”
“I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.”
“Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance.”
“What shocked me was three different anti-prostitution feminists asking me to justify that I had been a sex worker, to prove it. That either I hadn't done enough sex work by their standards, or I hadn't done the right kind in order to have the right to speak about it. I couldn't understand them. I'm not speaking for you. I'm not speaking "for" anyone. I'm trying to put together this picture of the different forces that are producing a result in the lives of sex workers. You can't contest the fact that tons of people are going to jail and experiencing violence.”
“Just be yourself, there is no one better.”
“Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.”
“We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, 'Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone's plea. You have a part to play. Have faith.' We can decide to risk that He is indeed there, watching, caring, cherishing us as we love and accept love. The world will be a better place for it. And wherever they are, the angels will dance.”

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