"There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them."

-- Asghar Farhadi

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Creative Quotes

“In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo has recently put it, "on arrival." Where naturalization law was concerned, for example, ample precedents recognized their ability to become citizens, a right explicitly resting on their "whiteness." But they also remained, as Working toward Whiteness puts it, "on trial" for a harrowingly long time.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.”
“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.”
“Vocal music is an attempt to take the whole human being and project it into space. It is the ultimate gesture of getting out of yourself. You take a part of you that is most private, most personal, most inward and you hurl it out into space - you project it as far as you can. That gesture of opining this whole region of the body results in an enormous spiritual release, and is felt by other people with tremendous impact.”
“Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.”

Source : "The joy of text" by Will Self, Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.
“When people are like, Life is good, I go, No, life is a series of disastrous moments, painful moments, unexpected moments, and things that will break your heart. And in between those moments, that's when you savor, savor, savor.”
“I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.”
“A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten.”

Source : Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.629, Penguin

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