"Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Reality Quotes #Craziness Quotes #Frightening Quotes

“Begging in the Name of Jesus is an insult to His Name. Use His Name as a king, with boldness!”
“As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.”

Source : "'Fresh Air' Remembers Hit Songwriter, Pianist And Producer Allen Toussaint". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 13, 2015.
“I love playing the bad guy getting away with stuff. I was that kid who learned from my older brothers who got away with everything by smiling.”
“Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?”
“If I can walk, I'll play.”
“When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.”
“For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.”
“Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.”

Source : "Actress Kandyse McClure on Living in Apartheid and Her Career". Interview with Bryan Cain-Jackson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2013.

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