"I have to reach "the poetry condition" to write. Then it is as if the border around me is thinned or blurred or erased or disappeared or dead."

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Kim Hyesoon

#Writing Quotes #Borders Quotes #Conditions Quotes

“There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.”

Source : Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851). “Legal arguments and speeches to the jury. Diplomatic and official papers. Miscellaneous letters”, p.68
“Do we stand up over a gold plated trophy? Or do we stand up and say we need equal wages and equal treatment?The Oscars have not been any different for what...89 years? But why do we keep wanting to get thrown a bone? Why do we want to keep saying 'Can we please come to your party?”
“God, I love you," he said, and laid his head on her belly, his arms locked around her hips. Madelyn slid her fingers into his hair. "It took you long enough," she said gently. "What I lack in quickness, I make up in staying power." "Meaning?" "That I'll still be telling you that fifty years from now." He paused and turned his head to kiss her stomach.”

Source : Linda Howard (1990). “Duncan's Bride”, Mira Books
“God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.”
“I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.”
“I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.”
“You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 28, 2010.
“Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job.”

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