Liberating Quotes - Page 8

• I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.

  Terry McMillan

  Thinking, People, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say "I've just got back from the 1860s, and you got it wrong." Anyway, it's fiction.

  Stef Penney

  Fiction, Research, World

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• It's nice to go into your doom. It's so liberating.

  Sheila Heti

  Nice, Doom

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The demise of the monolithic record industry has been, for a lot of people, really liberating and emancipating.

  Moby

  People, Records, Demise

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Liberating but hard to remember we're just bit-parts in the lives of people we know, who care very little for our secrets

  Derren Brown

  People, Secret, Who Cares

  FaceBook post by Derren Brown from Jan 30, 2013

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• As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

  Julia Cameron

  Holiday, Disruption, Tempo

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.176, Penguin

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• Harry's status as orphan gives him a freedom other children can only dream about (guiltily, of course). No child wants to lose their parents, yet the idea of being removed from the expectations of parents is alluring. The orphan in literature is freed from the obligation to satisfy his/her parents, and from the inevitable realization that his/her parents are flawed human beings. There is something liberating, too, about being transported into the kind of surrogate family which boarding school represents, where the relationships are less intense and the boundaries perhaps more clearly defined.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Children, School

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• I love to rock, but it's liberating not to always have to keep up with the freight train that is the Old 97's

  Rhett Miller

  Rocks, Train

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• Given the choice of apathy or someone liberating mink, burning down a research torture-laboratory, or killing a vivisectionist or other DIRECT murderer of animals, I will choose the aforesaid actions over apathy any day of the week.-

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Choices, Burning Down

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• I just have so much fun playing bad girl roles. Getting to say things that in life you would never ordinarily say, there's something really liberating about that. It's fun.

  India de Beaufort

  Girl, Fun, Roles

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• Seeing lesbian photography is just the tip of my radicalized clitoris. I have modeled for, commissioned, published, and fought for these pictures, and answered threats against them. I've seen the feminist movement bring these pictures to life, and I've seen that same movement try to suppress the liberating results.

  Susie Bright

  Photography, Feminist, Trying

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• This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Interesting, Actors, World

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• Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?

  Pablo Picasso

  Photography, Liberty, Anecdotes

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• As an actor, you are sort of only in charge of yourself. All you can really control is your performance. You don't know what they're going to do with it in the editing room, what they're going to cut out, which take they're going to use. You know, your control is very limited. As a director, it's ultimately your piece. You have a lot more responsibility, but you also have a lot more creative control. It's scary, but also liberating in a way.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Responsibility, Cutting, Creative

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• [My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Men, World

  "Diary of a Genius". Book by Salvador Dali, p. 9, 1964.

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• One of the liberating things about having a blog is the total vision it allows.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Vision, Blogs

  "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". Interview with Jacob Wren, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Men, Black, Trying

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• This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.

  J. K. Rowling

  Gay, Discovery, Law

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• We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.

  Libba Bray

  Honesty, Eye, Light

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.523, Simon and Schuster

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• We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side. Not in this case. In this case, assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's liberating. But we also know it's not an easy concept. -He's not just into you

  Greg Behrendt

  Truth, Dating, Rejection

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• Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Airplane, Light, Climbing

  Rudolf Arnheim (2009). “The Dynamics of Architectural Form”, p.33, Univ of California Press

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• This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Comforting, Contradictory, Chosen

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.432, Macmillan

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• For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I've been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.

  Bill Watterson

  Years, Play, Ideas

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• There's an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy, no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him; you show your admiration by confessing the truth. That directness doesn't work with humans, who are masters of subterfuge. Does this dress make me look fat? Do you really love me? Did you miss me? When a person asks this, she doesn't want to know the real answer. She wants you to lie to her. After two years of living with wolves, I had forgotten how many lies it takes to build a relationship.

  Jodi Picoult

  Honesty, Real, Lying

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• Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reading, Fiction, Passionate

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.117, Random House

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