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“Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active.”
Source : "Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part".
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“Food is fun to write about because everybody has an opinion. Food is also fun to write about because it's a challenge. There are only so many ways to describe a plate of gnudi without resorting to "pillowy."”
Source : Source: www.newyorker.com
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“Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.”
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“If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.”
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“The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.”
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“There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.”
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“I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.”
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“And as the bullet ripped through his flesh, Ralston was consumed by a single thought: I never told her that I loved her.”
