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Theatre Inspiration - Audra Mcdonald
“I found the theatre and I found my home.”
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Julie Andrews, 1965.
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Screencap Meme -> Ben Wyatt & my emotions! (asked by bowserbabe)
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“Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can’t control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.” — The Art of Living by Epictetus (trans. Sharon Lebell)(via aforeignheart)
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“Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can’t control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.” — The Art of Living by Epictetus (trans. Sharon Lebell)(via aforeignheart)
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“Wealthy musician Amanda Palmer, who last year raised $1.2 million on Kickstarter to produce and release a record, recently used a TED talk to expand on the idea that artists should be willing to work for free. After relaying a story about how she used to be a street performer, Palmer, who is married to a very successful author named Neil Gaiman, told an audience of people who’d paid $7,500 apiece to be there that musicians shouldn’t “make” people pay for their work, but rather “let” people pay for their work. She also explained that she found it virtuous when a family of undocumented immigrants huddled together on their couch for a night so that she and her band could have their beds, because her music and presence was a fair exchange for the family’s comfort. After about 13 minutes of explaining why she is content with people giving her things, Palmer received a standing ovation.” —When People Write for Free, Who Pays?
FYI, this is why Amanda Palmer is a giant SHITMONSTER.
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All while she and her fans rally around her right to perpetuate ableism and appropriate native cultures in order to sell records, and SHAME ON ANY OF US OUT THERE FOR JUDGING HER FOR IT IN ANY WAY.
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She also recommended instead of doing product placement for money, people should do things like “ironically send money to the KKK”.
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Yeah.
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this is what I think about every time people reblog her TedTalk uncritically.
(via troubledsigh)Ugh Amanda Palmer
Sure if an artist can swing performing without getting paid, and want to do so, go for it. But they are not ~superior~ to people who can’t afford to forgo payment for their work, and the CLASSISM involved in attitudes like this is breathtaking to me
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“Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles beween the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. For how could one express in words these emotions of the body? express that emptiness there? […] It was one’s body feeling, not one’s mind. The physical sensations that went with the bare look of the steps had become suddenly extremely unpleasant. To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have— to want and want— how that wrung the heart, and wring it again and again!” — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (via ykantdinoread)(via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
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“An official says Malala Yousufzai, who was shot by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education, has urged Pakistan to reverse a decision to rename a college in her honor to avert militant attacks on students. The 15-year-old who became a symbol of youth resistance to the Taliban made the request after students broke into the school, tore down Malala’s pictures and boycotted classes in her home town of Mingora. They say renaming the college endangers their lives.” —Malala Yousufzai, Girl Shot By The Taliban, Asks Pakistan Not To Rename College For Her.
Did you read that, raging liberals of Pakistan and the West? Malala does not want the attention. She does not want to be a symbol. She does not want to lose her life because your obsession with symbolizing Muslim women into icons of resistance render damage to their very lives. If you genuinely care, try to understand the context and gravity of the situation.
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And for God’s sake, stop reblogging that ridiculous comic strip that completely cartoonizes her.
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That comic has over 100,000 notes. This has less than 2,000 so far. Malala has been asking people to stop for awhile now. I guess respecting women is a bit too difficult when it’s easier to use them and their experiences to push your own narrative. (via mohandasgandhi)
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