Sara Davidson quotes

“...... an outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts.....a camp for semi-demented adults.... Venice is like the legendary Phoenix - it always seems to rise again from the ashes.”
-- Sara Davidson

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“The best we can do is focus on what we have the power to improve in ourselves, and when it comes to body-love the one you are with.”
-- Sara Davidson

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“The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.”
-- Sara Davidson

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“The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.”

“Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.”

“In actual fact the pacifistic-humane idea is perfectly all right perhaps when the highest type of man has previously conquered and subjected the world to an extent that makes him the sole ruler of this earth… Therefore, first struggle and then perhaps pacifism.”

“The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?”

“I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.”

Source : Source: www.independentphilly.com

“Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'”

“Pat Phoenix kept that amazing sassy look. I always wonder, was that because she was thrilled with that look, and thought it looked marvellous, or was it because she was too scared to change it? It's a double thing. Security and insecurity.”

“James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow down on the cheeseburgers.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?”

Source : François Le Lionnais (2004). “Great Currents of Mathematical Thought: Marthematics in the Arts and Sciences”, p.126, Courier Corporation

“There is no best anything in art. Phillip [Hoffman] isn't better than Heath [Ledger]; Joaquin [Phoenix] isn't better than David [Strathairn] or Terence [Howard]. They aren't better than me. We all do different things. It's more of a celebration of a lot of great work than to give the gold to somebody. The underappreciated factor certainly has gone away.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com