"What is this thing that has us chewing at our own selves, grating ourselves against our own sharp sieve? It is the act of stepping back. It is the act of separating, and judging. It takes only one because the one becomes two."

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Source : Bonnie Friedman (2014). “Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life”, p.2, Harper Collins

Bonnie Friedman

#Self Quotes #Two Quotes #Judging Quotes

“On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.”
“Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.
“I think about what I'm eating every day. I still have burgers and stuff that's not good for me sometimes, but I'm always trying to be careful. I don't just eat whatever I want.”

Source : "Camilla Luddington As Lara Croft" by James Fell, www.askmen.com.
“Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.”
“Christianity is based on a book. It centers in a Person. It expresses itself in a message. It authenticates itself in an experience.”
“I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality; people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.”
“call it crazy, or just chicken salad. But within reason, or without it i was in it too.”
“Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.”

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