"I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore."

-- Joaquin Phoenix

#Thinking Quotes #Interviews Quotes #Shows Quotes

“I believe the structure of 'House of Leaves' is far more difficult to explain than it is to read. And while I'd like to lay claim to some extraordinary act of originality, truth is I'm only taking advantage of capabilities inherent in everyone.”
“Planning a wedding is hell. Things are said. Doors are slammed. Quarrels about the most inconsequential things--yellow tablecloths or white? hors d'oeuvres set out on tables or passed around on trays?--are often pitched at such a level that it seems the combatants may never recover from them. Much of the anxiety, of course, is tribal. It is wrenching to have to open the sacred circle to admit an outsider.”
“You end up making a home in every place you're at, in a small way. In any way you can find a kind of mindfulness.”
“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.”
“I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.”

Source : "Happily unblessed" by Rose Shepherd, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2003.
“I couldn't find any meaning for my life when I was out there, I'm sure as hell not going to find it in here. This is the grand finale of a life poorly spent and the end result is just overwhelmingly depressing... it's just a sick, pathetic, wretched, miserable life story, that's all it is. How it can help anyone, I've no idea.”
“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”

Source : Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.174, 谷月社
“The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in society. Historically viewed as and conditioned to be passive, dependent creatures, victims of biological circumstance, women often find it difficult to embrace this power over life and death. They fall prey to the assumption, the myth, that they cannot be trusted with it.”

Source : Merle Hoffman (2012). “Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room”, p.59, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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