Janisse Ray quotes

“I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.”
-- Janisse Ray

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“The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.”
-- Janisse Ray

Source : Janisse Ray (2003). “Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home”

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“All I can say about Juliette of the Herbs is that it has made me look at how my life is now, still close to the earth, but not close enough...I'm happy to have seen a glimpse into her life. It encourages me to live as radically as I want. Tish's film is a grand one.”
-- Janisse Ray

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“I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.”

“If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.”

“Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.”

Source : Song: Precious Illusions, Album: Under Rug Swept, 2002

“I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.”

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

“STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.”

“It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.”

“There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.”

“The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!”

“Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.”

“I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.”