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“Sometimes, as a young artist, I was looking for validation to know I was good enough, and that's what the initial audition gave me. It made me feel like I was doing something right, even if it is a scary or unstable path.”
Source : Source: www.sheknows.com
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“If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.”
Source : Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.100, Macmillan
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“Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews.”
Source : Jeremy Collier (1728). “Essays upon several moral subjects”, p.161
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“Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.”
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“When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.”
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“Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.”
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“Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by Harry and friends in their stolen wheelbarrows. Readers walk away, maybe a little softer on the occult than they were, but with story-embedded messages: the importance of a pure soul; love's power even over death; about sacrifice and loyalty; a host of images and shadows about Christ and how essential 'right belief' is for personal transformation and victory over internal and external evils.”
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“We love without reason, and without reason we hate.”
Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 658-59, Les Folies Amoureuses, 1922.
