A Quote by Dejan Stojanovic
I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.
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I decided upon the thought that I can only find myself once I can admit to myself and approve that both sides are sides of myself.
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Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution.
Just as Lincoln got contradictory advice from the extremists of both sides . . . so now I have to guard myself against the extremists of both sides.
I have an ocean of opportunities awaiting me and once I am back from Miss World, I want to explore whatever life has to offer.
I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could rest again.
In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives and give each of them very a convincing voice. It's like playing tennis with yourself and you have to be on both sides of the yard. You have to be on both sides, or all sides if there are more than two sides.
I've had experiences on both sides of the ocean and various classrooms and bedrooms around New York.
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Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana.
Being respected by people on both sides of the aisle is really important to me - even in an age when giving a hearing to 'both sides' is considered a smear in some corners.
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Variants include "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore".
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