"After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall."

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Source : "Dominion", (p. 10), October 4, 1993.

David Lange

#Past Quotes #Empty Quotes #Heavy Quotes

“The Earth is a living, breathing entity. Without ongoing care and nurturing, there will be consequences too big to ignore.”
“The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration... I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood going, even though it were condemned by all other artists as anti-musical.”
“Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isnâ€™t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you donâ€™t see.”
“Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.”
“If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.”
“Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.”
“Art exists through the act of making. It has to somehow be made manifest to another person. It has to do with what one wants to see manifest, what one wants to bring into the world, what one desires to have exist.”
“If one wants to be called a queen, one should act with civility and grace.”

Source : "Interview with Jinkx Monsoon: Host for the 7th Annual Academy Awards Party at Seattle Cinerama". Interview with Brian Peterson, seattlegayscene.com. February 22, 2012.

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