#orient

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I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.


Thomas Wilson


#anyone #anything #being #hired #i

Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.


Ronnie Montrose


#attempting #banging #caused #felt #fries

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.


Adrienne Rich


#also #awakening #confusing #consciousness #disorienting

Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses.


Rick Ross


#also #campuses #efforts #general #helpful

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.


Ana Castillo


#am #asked #being #chicago #disorienting

After two years' absence she finally returned to chilly Europe, a trifle weary, a trifle sad, disgusted by our banal entertainments, our shrunken landscapes, our impoverished lovemaking. Her soul had remained over there, among the gigantic, poisonous flowers. She missed the mystery of old temples and the ardor of a sky blazing with fever, sensuality and death. The better to relive all these magnificent, raging memories, she became a recluse, spending entire days lying about on tiger skins, playing with those pretty Nepalese knives 'which dissipate one's dreams'.


Octave Mirbeau


#decadent #exoticism #orientalism #death

If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality?


Judith Butler


#homosexuality #sex #sexual-orientation #sexuality #equality

We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation.


John Lewis


#equal-rights #gays #lesbians #racial-discrimination #sexual-orientation

You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.


Agatha Christie


#detective #express #fiction #hercule #murder

In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad.


Mark Burnett


#africa #called #camp #chairs #desert