"Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure."

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Source : Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

Rebecca Wells

#Depression Quotes #People Quotes #Earth Quotes

“In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.”
“I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.”

Source : Rebecca Stead (2010). “When You Reach Me/First Light”, p.134, Wendy Lamb Books
“I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.”
“What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.”
“Standing on the bridge, looking across at that empty city, everything in the compass of my gaze had been set there by a human hand. Somehow those pylons had been strung with wire, and those towers raised, and roofs tiled. There had been food and drink for millions of mouths. I don't cry easy, but my vision blurred as I stared on the ruins of what we had been, and I watched the small band of men in rags move toward it to pick at it like birds on the carcass of some giant.”
“I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.”
“I own some bugs encased in lucite or something. I also have a big cat's eye - a fake one - made for a taxidermist. I really like animals.”
“Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.”

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