Judi Dench // "I thought, how many new lives can we have? Then I thought, as many as we like."
John Lewis // "I have been beaten, my skull fractured, and arrested more than forty times so that each and every person has the right to register and vote. Friends of mine gave their lives. Do your part. Get out there and vote like you’ve never voted before."
Vincent Van Gogh // "It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work...and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after."
James Dean // "Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it."
George Orwell // "It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human, that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other."
Leonard Cohen // "It isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply."
J.D. Salinger // "I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice."
Gertrude Stein // "Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening...like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup."
Dylan Moran // People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like "be realistic."
Jeff Buckley // "I have no advice for anybody...except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful...even places you hate."
Henry Miller // "To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating... To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act."
Rick Rubin // "The world is only as free as it allows its artists to be."