"Limbs of a dismembered poet."

-- Horace

#Latin Quotes #Poet Quotes #Limbs Quotes

“But then when I'm in a halfway successful movie, it irritates the hell out of the critics in New York, because they'd like to kill my pictures if they could. So maybe I'm pretty good in the movie. Then they use all these words like I'm 'surprisingly' good, or 'shockingly enough,' I'm good. It's like I crawled out from under a magazine and they're surprised I can act.”
“Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?”
“It was a great test of my ability to work with... watercolors. And it was also a test of my patience; I needed to put myself in a completely disciplined position... I couldn't make mistakes.”
“Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.”
“Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books.”
“A Dark Night is a mental and emotional state of despair that arises when something is so painful that it blots out all other considerations and makes carrying on as usual out of the question.”

Source : Susan Piver (2010). “The Wisdom of a Broken Heart: How to Turn the Pain of a Breakup Into Healing, Insight, and New Love”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
“Take your job seriously, BUT don't take their complaints personally. If you take it personally you'll get upset and lose your edge. If you take it too personally, you'll lose your edge and your job. If you take it seriously -- it's you with them. If you take it personally, it's you against them. What steps can you take to ensure keeping your cool?”
“I skate to anything with a good beat, anything that can get me motivated.”

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