#thin

At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#been #before #feel #first #i

I think I have a lot of crazy layers. ↗

— Blythe Danner

#i #i think #layers #lot #think

Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters. ↗

— Blythe Danner

#doing #films #gratifying #little #lives

If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche. ↗

— Ted Danson

#benefit #body #feel #feeling #huge

I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level. ↗

— Ted Danson

#anxiety #being #between #difference #different

I don't think you can ever be ahead of your time with cynicism about that subject. No, I don't think it was ahead of its time. I think it was very much a product of its time. ↗

— Joe Dante

#ahead #cynicism #ever #i #i think

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#end #extreme #haiti #hear #i

More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#access #ago #different #even #find

People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#cnn #country #haiti #i #limited

You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#birth #birth certificate #centralized #certificate #city