"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting."

-- Mark Twain

#Taken Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Exercise Quotes

“My very first professional job was with a theatre company in 1965 and the first job they gave me was literally shovelling sh*t. I was an assistant stage manager and they told me to clear out the prop store. I opened it up and no-one had been in there for 25 years and it was inches deep in rat sh*t. So before I could get anywhere I had to clear it up. I thought, 'All these years of training, the best drama school in the world, and this is what I'm doing.'”
“Guys are idiots, till they're what, 40 years old.”
“In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.”
“A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.”
“I'm not a prophet or a teacher, I just ask questions. I don't think a writer should be a teacher, but should know how to pose the questions and explain the problems.”
“Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.”

Source : Linda Hogan (1997). “Solar Storms”, p.126, Simon and Schuster
“We must be free inside to make a difference outside.”

Source : Vishal Mangalwadi (2012). “The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization”, p.48, Thomas Nelson Inc
“The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this dialogic, discursive process that we come to know the Other and his points of view, his stories. We learn an enormous amount not only about the world but about ourselves by discourse with Others.”

Source : Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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