quotes
“Imagination is the last weapon for people who have lost all their bearings. This is what keeps them alive because nobody can do anything about it; it’s the ultimate hope.”
- Abderrahmane Sissako, filmmaker
"I always thought my days spent in darkness as a child gave me a very special sensitivity. Much later, when I really wanted to hear, really 'see' a song, I'd close my eyes. And when I wanted to bring it out of the very depths of myself, out of my guts, out of my belly, when the song had to come from far away, I'd close my eyes." — Edith Piaf
“Love has never been a popular movement. And no one's ever wanted, really, to be free.
The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people.
Otherwise, of course you can despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you.
What you've got to remember is what you're looking
... See more"Keep awake, alive, new.
Perform the paradox of being hard and yet soft. Survive without calcification of the tender membranes. Be a poet. Be alive." — Tennessee Williams
“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"To be human, to be fully human, is to need music and derive nourishment from the music you hear." —
Bob Moog
SIN IS WHAT IS NEW, STRONG, SURPRISING, STRANGE. THE THEATRE MUST TAKE AN INTEREST IN SIN IF THE YOUNG ARE TO BE ABLE TO GO THERE. — BERTOLT BRECHT
"Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes
... See more“Each being in this world must find the set of opportunities fitted to its nature.” — Lewis Hyde