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I had an acting teacher, Eden Cooper-Sage, who told me, “We are what we spend our time doing,” and I want so badly to be an artist, so how can I transition from spending my time acting to spending my time making art? Or is it really one and
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“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
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“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”
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some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”
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“Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that the suffering could be transcended. Jesus brought the message that even the last shall be first, that even the tax collectors and lepers - the outcasts - had cause for hope. And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Song of Solomon
― Song of Solomon
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