Happy Rhodes quotes

“Every step I take, I am alive. I am Life.”
-- Happy Rhodes

Source : "Song: "When The Rain Came Down" ("Ecto")". 1987.

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“I am transparent An open book; There's no choice in the matter But the breath from my mind Is living air, And the notes from my heart Are what I share. Words weren't made for cowards.”
-- Happy Rhodes

Source : Song: Words Weren't Made for Cowards, Album: Warpaint

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“If you stare into a flame You'll get an eye full of energy If you write your nightscapades You'll get a dawn full of promises”
-- Happy Rhodes

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“I am skilled now, at casting iron To make a hardened bed for my heavy world”
-- Happy Rhodes

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“Everybody sees me as a solitary entity but I long to be important to somebody It's a love of fairy tales that drives this guilty wish To walk serenely in front of family to collect my kiss and though this notion is as flawed as any I have learned I'd like to think that like the others, it's something I deserve”
-- Happy Rhodes

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“When the moon comes up, I go down For the first time There's a garden deep, deep in my heart But it's blossomed for the last time”
-- Happy Rhodes

#Heart Quotes #Moon Quotes #Garden Quotes

“I think in my earlier albums I lived in my head a lot more. The issues I dealt with were all personal, depression or how I would react to certain situations. Now, not feeling too depressed that much anymore, I think about other things. I turn my thoughts outward now.”
-- Happy Rhodes

#Thinking Quotes #Issues Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him”

“For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.”

Source : Turkish Press Review, June 1, 1999.

“Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.”

“A name isn't a person,' Ga said. 'Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they're always with you because they're a part of you.”

“And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.”

Source : Aidan Chambers (2010). “Now I Know”, p.34, Random House

“The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive. A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.”

“I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.”

“When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.”

“I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.”

“At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like 'I bet Tom Stoppard doesn't have to do this' or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling'.”