"The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress."

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Source : Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster

Hendrik Willem van Loon

#Dance Quotes #Art Quotes #Our World Quotes

“I'm really happy that it's in Russia. I've had a lot of success here. I had my first world championships here when I was younger so I am happy to do the Olympics here. I am really enjoying myself.”
“I have to reinvent myself.”
“I'm just me. If I am sexy, it's just something I do naturally, like picking up a knife and fork to eat. I think people who try to be sexy are the most unsexy people in the world.”
“So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all the pain and the struggle.”

Source : Lynn V. Andrews (1993). “Walk in Balance: Meditations with Lynn Andrews”, Harper San Francisco
“The Morganville in her wanted to tell people to go home and be safe, but she knew that was verging on crazy. The world these laughing people lived in was a very different place. She was in a very different place.”
“I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I just spent hours making faces at myself, having a good time.”
“A lot of people consider my books to be straightforward, but I think that I write from atmosphere to atmosphere rather than from event to event.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Driving, for me, means power and freedom. The feeling that I can go anywhere I want at any time is exhilarating.”

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