"For better or worse, the world is shaped by people working out their personal issues."
-David Ehrlich
“The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
-Assata Shakur
“We are not going to be the biggest band in the world – we’re going to put on little shows, put out a little magazine, and have a little label. We made it small enough that we could do it. And we held down jobs, paid our rent, and made a living.”
-Mike Watt, "Our Band Could Be Your Life"
"I don’t know how much time I have in this life. I must write and put my soul on the page every time. I want to leave a body of work defined by beauty, intelligence, and passion behind whenever I march off from this mortal coil."
-Angelica Jade Bastién
"The hardest thing in the world to do is make something look simple."
-Daniel Day-Lewis
"It’s a cycle. People create something, together, that reflects their energy and weird work; that thing becomes compelling as a result, and that makes it valuable, and at some point someone puts a price on it and someone else pays that price. It is at that moment that the thing begins to change. The new owner will almost always decide that what is most interesting about this thing is not the human essence that gave it value, but The Owner Himself, and will act accordingly."
-David Roth
"There is no film that will stop the societal problems caused by our fundamental lack of empathy for each other."
-Celia Mattison