Josh Pais Quotes
When we shift back to feeling the sensations in our body and connect to what's in front of us, the creative channel opens up.
Quotes to Explore
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.
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I'm virile, vigorous, and potent!
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Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.
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I am resigned to the fact that people who don't know me loathe me. Perhaps it is because I am a woman writing poetry. It must be annoying to a man who wants to write to see this horrid old lady who can.
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A man being sued after a woman has more sex than intended is like Lay’s being sued after someone has more potato chips than intended. In brief, date rape can be a crime, a misunderstanding, or buyer’s remorse.
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Iniurium est de poeta male sobrio lectorem abstemium iudicare.
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Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?
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Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.
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I do dead Canadians. If he's dead and he's Canadian and he's famous, I'll be playing him at some point.
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So often, grooming is meant to make you feel better about yourself, and a lot of times, we use it to make ourselves feel worse.
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I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.
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When I see great film, I have this feeling of 'Oh, wow! Wasn't that great? Wasn't that good?' I want to do something. I want to scream and go out there and participate and embrace life.
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It was a dark period of my life when William Hung was the most famous Asian man.
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When we shift back to feeling the sensations in our body and connect to what's in front of us, the creative channel opens up.
