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  • STANDARD BRITISH Hello, I'm Amy Walker. Actress, singer and artist, as a form of Courageous Compassion.

  • COCKNEY Right -Courageous Compassion. What's that then?

  • IRISH For me, when I embody the voice, physicality,

  • SCOTTISH erm... Hopes, Fears, Perspectives and choices of another being,

  • ITALIAN I identify with them.

  • MINNESOTA Whether they're human, animal, otherwise or otherworldly,

  • BOSTON They become a part of me.

  • S.CAROLINA When I identify with someone, I have an opportunity to let go of judgement;

  • AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE and practice courageous compassion.

  • BROOKLYN I might not agree with their perspective or choices...

  • AUSTRALIAN I've played characters where I'm just in agony trying to justify a particularly

  • violent or destructive choice.

  • RUSSIAN I've grappled with trying to understand how their humanity can allow it.

  • EGYPTIAN But when I approach it from a perspective

  • of acceptance,

  • YORKSHIRE I can break through to a new understanding of how they may have been shaped by their circumstances,

  • LISPING CHILD How they were treated by their parents, teachers, bullies...

  • MEXICAN I just let go of the labels, you know? and find their essence within me.

  • INDIAN For I am equally, imperfectly human.

  • NEW ZEALAND Capable of the same monstrous and magnificent acts.

  • TEXAS That's why I call it "Courageous Compassion."

  • FRENCH It takes courage for anyone to identify with the darkness we're capable of.

  • CORNWALL And even the infinite light we shine.

  • WEST AFRICAN/GHANA Especially the light. The beautiful light we can share with each other takes courage!

  • US NEWS REPORTER I believe that inspired art shows us examples

  • of how we're choosing to live.

  • BRANDY MAN It says, this person chose to do that...

  • VALLEY GIRL And here's what happened.

  • GERMAN It invites us to analyze our habitual reactions; and choose to respond from the heart.

  • JAPANESE Only then, from this greater perspective, can I truly say,

  • SEATTLE "I, Amy Walker, perfectly imperfectly, choose to practice the ways of Love."

  • JAMAICAN I choose Love, man!

  • TRANSATLANTIC I choose to embody different perspectives as an act of courageous, compassionate Love.

  • BRITISH RP And that's only one form of love. One. Of Infinite doorways.

  • SEATTLE Vibes to your doorways to courageous compassion. For we are all connected.

STANDARD BRITISH Hello, I'm Amy Walker. Actress, singer and artist, as a form of Courageous Compassion.

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