Liberating Quotes - Page 7

• If you sort of see yourself writing into a space that you don't always recognize, you sometimes learn things that you knew, but weren't entirely aware of. It's very liberating for a writer to go into a space where she or he has not gone before, because, instead of being a tourist, you're like an explorer now, and you're sort of lost in this new idea.

  Colum McCann

  Writing, Ideas, Space

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I always loved fantasy, whether for adults or young people; and at that particular point in my life, I wanted to try it, to understand it, as part of the process of learning to be a writer. The results were beyond anything I could have foreseen. As I've said often and elsewhere, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Writing, Years, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Women is out because she's getting in her daily dose of empowerment, freedom and fearlessness. She has put on her freedom wings for 20 minutes or two hours. That's going to make her whole day right and her whole future hold up and seem entirely possible. The sense of her not having any limits, or any restrictions, to me, is so liberating. She doesn't have to prove anything.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Two, Wings, Empowerment

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Tools, Coercion

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can you really bomb feminism into a country? And now, after 25 years of brutal war - 10 years against the Soviet occupation, 15 years of US occupation - the Taliban is riding back to Kabul and will soon be back to doing business with the United States.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, War, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• MAD FREE is simply described as "Liberating Conversations with Revolutionary Women about Beauty, Image and Power". It began as a Salon series in NY loft in Brooklyn as a salve to my broken heart after Honey Magazine folded. It was not because of the readership or because the market wasn't there; the company that held it collapsed, which I was the last editor in chief of.

  Michaela Angela Davis

  Heart, Editors, Broken

  Source: www.naturallycurly.com

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• Donald Trump believes in America, he believes in its people. He believes in its promise, is very liberating and you see that when you're with him privately, you see it publicly.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Believe, America, People

  Source: tech.fortune.cnn.com

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• I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story.

  Emily Susan Rapp

  Writing, Hands, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact. I had the paradigm of certain people in my head who became my characters, but I never considered these people to be from a "certain sector of society," unless we agree that we're all from certain sectors of society.

  Said Sayrafiezadeh

  Character, People, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Reality, Thinking, Waiting

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• I'm a naturist at heart. I love being on beaches where everyone is naked. Ugly young people, beautiful old people, whatever. It's so unsexual and so liberating.

  Helen Mirren

  Beautiful, Beach, Heart

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• Evolution tells us how to survive; art tells us how it's possible still to live even while knowing that we and all we love will someday vanish. It says there's beauty even in grief, freedom even inside the strictures of form and of life. What's liberating isn't what's simplest; it's the ability to include more and more shadows, colors and possibilities inside any moment's meeting of self and world.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Art, Grief, Self

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Shooting an improv-based film is incredibly liberating, exhilarating, and fun, but editing that kind of movie can be difficult for obvious continuity reasons.

  Hannah Fidell

  Fun, Editing, Shooting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think if you were to sever the connection between arousal and shame, you might actually come up with something liberating and socially useful. It might be healthier for us, and lead to a situation such as they enjoy in Holland, Denmark, or Spain, where they have pornography all over the place - quite hardcore pornography - but they do not have anywhere the incidence of sex crimes.

  Alan Moore

  Sex, Thinking, Connections

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm wearing three hats; I'm acting, producing, and directing. I was very involved in developing the script, too. But to me, that is very liberating. To me, the lower the budget, the more I want to be involved. I want to be more in control of my own destiny when there isn't much money involved, because you don't have the experts who can control your destiny.

  Bruce Campbell

  Destiny, Acting, Want

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. February 11, 2009.

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• Having seen Justin's work on Bleak House, I knew that he'd be incredibly well prepared and interesting stylistically for this and that was definitely the case. It's very liberating for actors - and I can only speak for myself here - but he creates a very loose environment and he's a great collaborator.

  Eric Bana

  Interesting, House, Actors

  "The Other Boleyn Girl - Eric Bana interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Our assignment is to see the dominion of God realized into people's lives. It is not an overpowering control, it is a life-giving, liberating experience with the almighty God, who is an ultimate, perfect Father who loves to bring liberty and freedom to His people.

  Bill Johnson

  Father, People, Giving

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• You will never realize your best destiny through the avoidance of fear.
  Rather, you will realize it through the exercise of courage, which
  means taking whatever action is most liberating to the soul, even when
  you are afraid.

  Martha Beck

  Mean, Exercise, Destiny

  Martha Beck (2009). “Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny”, p.44, Rodale

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• It's a balancing act of you feel horrible that you're away but there is something about the road that is rather liberating.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Horrible, Feels, Balancing Act

  "Jim Gaffigan Talks to Brian Regan About Hating Being Called a 'Clean' Comedian, Resisting Hollywood, and Playing Big Venues". Interview with Jim Gaffigan, www.vulture.com. September 23, 2015.

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• The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think better. You're braver, and you'll say anything. If you could just hang in there with two or three, it'd be beautiful. The trouble was I couldn't.

  Barry Hannah

  Beautiful, Thinking, Two

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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• The realization that you're not always standing down there on the field merely to win, to be successful, was very liberating. One can be successful by helping the team, the other players. All of a sudden I felt the kind of empathy for people that I hadn't felt before.

  Oliver Kahn

  Team, Successful, Winning

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Feminism or the family? Carried to excess maybe. I have insisted that women cannot be defined solely in those terms. But for a great many women - not all, because we are only beginning to realize and affirm the diversity of women themselves - choosing motherhood makes motherhood itself a liberating choice.

  Betty Friedan

  Motherhood, Diversity, Choices

  "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Betty Friedan : Beyond the 'Feminine Mystique:' A New Era of Women's Rights". Interview with Robert Scheer, articles.latimes.com. April 26, 1992.

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• You just can't tell or calibrate motive or intelligence or sense. So I don't read anything unless someone tells me that it's really smart or illuminating. I don't read any reviews anymore and it's been really liberating.

  Anna Quindlen

  Smart, Reviews, Motive

  Source: urbanmoms.ca

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• It was scary. But it was so liberating. I thought, This is not predetermined - I get to choose. There are some days where I have to choose five times in a day. I had to make a choice when you called and the phone rang, whether I'm going to show up and be me, or whether I'm going to say what I think I'm supposed to say and get off the phone.

  Brené Brown

  Thinking, Phones, Choices

  "Brené Brown On Why Courage, Vulnerability And Authenticity Have To Be Practiced". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2013.

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• It's challenging as an actor to let go but I had some pleasure out of it too. To not have the effort of having to present myself is quite liberating.

  Juliette Binoche

  Letting Go, Effort, Challenges

  "Juliette Binoche Talks ‘Elles,’ Masturbation & her Upcoming Portrayal of Camille Claudel". Interview with Matt Mueller, www.indiewire.com. April 23, 2012.

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