"It was as if I had worked for years on the wrong side of a tapestry, learning accurately all its lines and figures, yet always missing its color and sheen."

-- Anna Louise Strong

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“I'm a wife and a mother. I don't want to be immature; I have to be ready at all times.”

Source : "Sarah Shahi Charms as the Lead of USA Network’s Fairly Legal". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2012.
“I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip.”
“I don't like that we repeat a certain expression over and over again because I think it narrows the way that we look on the world. I also think that there is a certain responsibility if you work with moving images because it's so strong in creating behaviour; it's so strong in creating the way that we look on the world, so for me it's very important that I create images that I have an experience of or is something that I think exists in the world and not just in cinema.”
“You're totally hooking up with my brother. I don't care.”
“I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're not sure we ought to. We seldom give them a high priority when other demands are competing for our attention. Nevertheless, the soul feeds on simple joys and withers without them....”
“Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.”
“I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.”
“how seasonably leaf and blossom uncurl and living things arrange their death, while someone from afar off blows birthday candles for the world.”

Source : Irving Layton (1977). “The Selected Poems of Irving Layton”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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