"I think that the inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror of being touched. And if you can't be touched, you can't be changed. And if you can't be changed, you can't be alive."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Love Is Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Inability Quotes

“I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.”
“You never get tired of the buzz of touring.”
“I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.”

Source : "This much I know: Natascha McElhone". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.
“The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.”
“I wanted to be an actor, an astrologer, an astronaut; a lot of different things were going through my mind. But I also wanted to play guitar. I mentioned to my parents that I wanted an electric guitar for Christmas. They got me one! I sat there all Christmas morning making a lot of loud horrible noise.”
“To play a repressed gay man, I had to explore what life was like in an era of sexual repression.”
“Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.”
“History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.”

Source : "Just the Facts, Ma'am" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. March 24, 2008.

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