"There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the first only the best will do, for the rest - then one can let in anything one would like to read in the world."

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Source : Mary Butts (2008). “The Journals of Mary Butts”, p.30, Yale University Press

Mary Butts

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“Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy.”
“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.”
“The best thing as an actor, the best tool you have is your imagination. That you kind of take things that have happened, and then go and expand on them. However small it is, you use your imagination to create what that reality is. There's something kind of fun when you're not old enough to do anything, driving a car, getting into a bar, drinking, going to a party you don't belong to, something when you're young in that innocent way.”
“A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul”
“I've been living in New York City almost seven years, and my mentality has changed a lot. Just from being in New York this long and going across America, I realize that in New York, nobody really cares. They are just like, "We're New Yorkers." I feel like that is really the way it should be.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“It all begins with acknowledging that we have some very profound challenges, and that we don't have easy answers at hand, things that we know will solve the problems. If people embrace those two facts, then the next steps are a little easier to fall into place.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“I had three weeks of prep on 'Wolfman,' a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I've ever let finances enter into the decision process.”
“When you donâ€™t have many friends and you donâ€™t have a social life youâ€™re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. Thereâ€™s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like youâ€™re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.”

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