"I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God."

-- Spalding Gray

#Memories Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?”
“Dancing allows me to explore myself in so many ways, to learn about my limitations and strengths, my ability to cope with adversity and to go farther than I thought I could. You find out what you're made of.”
“I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.”

Source : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.130, New York Review of Books
“That the mechanisms of mass-production, which feed the demand for endlessly growing consumption in one generation can radically effect the possible futures for subsequent generations. Furthermore, to undo the effects of one generation's actions is not temporally relative. What is done, cannot be undone in the same timeframe. Like the factories themselves, the effects linger, they haunt us long after their final breath.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.”
“When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom.”

Source : "Kirk Franklin's Freedom". "The 700 Club" with Shannon Woodland and Scott Ross, www.cbn.com. April 2004.
“I'm like any Brazilian: I like to go out and enjoy myself.”
“Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder.”

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