Ray Van Mechelen Quotes & Sayings

As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive. — David Blaine

For me, when I go in to write a profile, and no ground rules are laid down, and I'm there to write an on-the-record profile and cover readings while in the room, then that means it's on the record. — Michael Hastings

I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw. — Natalie Babbitt

Read and Re-Read
Re-reading, we always find a new book. — C.S. Lewis

As I got more confident, I was able to let actors improvise, and do long takes. It's 10%, 5% you learn and experience. The rest you just have or you don't have. — Woody Allen

in the magnificence of the order of the spirits and gods, where the word was not associated with worship, but with becoming. — P.W. Child

All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born. — W.B.Yeats

We just kept hanging in and fighting. — Troy Brown

Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and however you say it and, for me, it represents complete freedom of speech. — Zachary Cole Smith

To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to join forces. But all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration. The Challenging White Supremacy Workshop is the most powerful tool that I have seen for removing the barriers to true partnerships between people of color and white folks. If the CWS trainings were mandatory for all white activists, the progressive movement in the United States would be unstoppable. — Van Jones

I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is. — David Hewson