
“The whole time I’ve been building my audience I’ve also been trying to unbuild the walls that come with having an audience, with having power. The whole point is to be able to feel more, to connect more, and yet in some ways having power runs at cross-purposes to this. Maybe I feel more just by sitting with a friend. And can I make a career, as a filmmaker and performer, that makes this sitting-with-a-friend feeling more possible, for each member of the audience and for myself? Yes! I say yes.”
Miranda July
more infosource: “Miranda July,” interviewed by Rachel Kushner, BOMB magazine, Issue 92, Summer 2005.
category: audience, connection, film, performance
medium: Interview
“Looking directly into my eyes he very gently squeezed my fingers: which is how chimpanzees reassure each other.”
Jane Goodall
more infosource: “Jane Goodall, Illustrated,” The New York Times, May 13, 2011.
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category: animal, chimpanzee, connection, reassurance
medium: Interview
“I must slough off people—too many connections, too many people, too many entanglements. But it will take all the time just saying no. I don’t help them, they don’t help me. It’s just bitter useless waste of lives, time, soul—everything.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
more infosource: Locked Rooms and Open Doors: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1933–1935 (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974), 23.
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category: connection, socializing
medium: diary
notes: diary entry dated Saturday March 18, 1933
“People with yuan fen are destined to like one another;
Friendship develops even if a thousand miles apart.
But should yuan fen be absent between two individuals,
They will remain strangers despite sitting face-to-face.”
Adeline Yen Mah
more infosource: Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society (New York: HarperCollins, 2005), 25.
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category: connection, friendship
medium: fiction


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