"I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands..."

--

Louise Bourgeois

“I've been living for 17 years, and I've noticed human relations is the most difficult thing to understand...”
“LL Cool J was a rapper-turned-actor, and I also relate to him because he was sort of a ladies' man and had a female fan base, but yet he's a positive dude. You never read about him getting into trouble or going to jail.”
“The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.”
“If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.”

Source : Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. January 23, 2013.
“Missing the mark is one of the ways in which we learn to hit the target.”
“It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.”
“Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.”
“Every wall is a door.”

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