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Shane Koyczan Quotes

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: canadian
Birth: May 22, 1976

Topics

Poetry Me Feeling Way Through Going

I think we have cultural bias and practice some ethnocentrism when it comes to ethnic food in America.

Food Practice Think America Bias

I'm just really confident sexually, and I think that sort of oozes out of my pores. It's just there. It's something I don't have to turn on.

Think Confident Turn Out Something

I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.

Life Good Suffering Texas Living

Jesus Christ... came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God's holiness which had been desecrated by our sin and which seemed... to be taken lightly because it was being passed over for nothing more than the blood of bulls.

God World Worth Sin Blood Nothing

For many years as a foreign correspondent, I not only worked alongside human rights advocates, but considered myself one of them. To defend the rights of those who have none was the reason I became a journalist in the first place. Now, I see the human rights movement as opposing human rights.

Myself Place Now First Movement See

None of us are good or evil, and that frustrates us because we want to see others as wearing a white hat or black hat. My hat is grey.

Good Hat Evil Black White Want

I have one of those old-fashioned mothers who told me every single day, 'Son, you can do or be anything that you want to do or be.' And I believed it. I bought into it 100%.

Son Day Me You Want Anything

When I was working with Barry Sonnenfeld, I'd watch him set up a shot and talk to him about what he was seeing and what it was to shoot comedy. He told me that a lot of times with comedy, it's not just about getting the joke, but getting a reaction to the joke. That's the laugh - it's somebody's else's reaction to the joke.

Me Laugh Comedy Seeing Talk Him

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

Art Painting Writing Arts Solitary

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

Freedom Enemies Shoot Shout Argue

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

Love Together Words People Writing

I can't imagine making something that is made only to be scary. For me, the darkness and scary material has to have meaning attached to it, or I can't invest the time and energy it takes to write and script or make a movie. It has to mean something.

Scott Derrickson

Time Darkness Me Energy Meaning

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