"I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process."

-- Laini Taylor

#Blogging Quotes #Months Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate is not inborn; it has to be constantly cultivated, to be brought into being, in conflict with more or less recognized guilt complexes. Hate demands existence and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behavior; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching. Each to his own side of the street.”
“There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.”
“I've enjoyed every minute of travelling and playing for my country. What an honour that is.”
“Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.”

Source : "Brie Larson Interview UNITED STATES OF TARA and SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. March 23, 2010.
“Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.”

Source : Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “An Actor Prepares”, p.38, A&C Black
“So what do you have to confess now?" I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is the truth. "I'm confessing that I don't know if I'm ready for this." "What is 'this'?" "Being open. Being hurt. Liking. Not being liked. Seeing the flicker on. Seeing the flicker off. Leaping. Falling. Crashing.”
“What we give to the poor for Christ's sake, is what we carry with us when we die.”

Source : Peter Maurin (2010). “Easy Essays”, p.123, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“I'm not saying that things now aren't better for black people. Thank God they're definitely better, but some things are still the same. "Better" is not good enough - it's not. Especially when "better" still means my life is at risk.”

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