I realize we can destroy ourselves in ways so deep we'll never return to the place we were before we started the destruction" - Valentine
Lisa SamsonGreat Drew, you're sitting here about to beg Daisy's forgiveness
Lisa SamsonMovie Jesus is a whole lot different from Bible Jesus
Lisa SamsonYou should never use propaganda to teach kids the truth.
Lisa SamsonTag: truth propaganda kids teach
The point is, the way to speak to the universal is through the particular. The broad message might appear to speak to everyone, but really it speaks to no one deeply. When you focus on the particular, even though it seems counterintuitive, by communicating just one thing to just one person, you say everything to everyone.
Lisa SamsonFrom two niches (to use Barber's word), North and South, we've splintered into hundreds of thousands, a nation of tribes connected not by kinship or even creed. We're merely tethered together by the Internet, by our brand loyalties and shared consumer obsessions.
Lisa SamsonGod wasn't giving me a megaphone. He was telling me to shut up. To be still and know.
Lisa SamsonI've never heard anyone come back from downtown Baltimore waxing poetic about the authenticity of poverty.
Lisa SamsonConfession: I don't want everybody to be beautiful, not in that unlined, creaseless, symmetrical way. Android beauty, like it comes out of a test tube. Beauty without blemish or mark. Not only do I not identify with such people, I don't believe in them either. I don't even find them attractive. This is what makes watching television so hard: they don't cast actors anymore, only models. When they make a movie of my life, they'd better cast a character actor in the lead. Don't try to tell me I'm not a character.
Lisa SamsonTag: beauty media television character models
There's enough ugliness in the world without having to feel guilty about the beauty.
Lisa SamsonTag: beauty
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