"I was working on the book, but in a very subterranean kind of a fashion. And I think that giving yourself permission to respect that, without being lazy and not doing work when you could be doing work and just don't feel like it - that's a different balance that can be complicated to strike."

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Emily Barton

#Fashion Quotes #Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson.”
“Gardening symbolizes our race's primordial acceptance of a responsibility and role in rectifying the harm done to the creation through sin.”

Source : Vigen Guroian (2001). “Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening”, p.14, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.”
“I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.”
“That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.”
“I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.”
“Knowledge is the reward of action. For it is by doing things that one becomes transformed. Executing a symbolical gesture, actually living through, to the very limit, a particular role, one comes to realize the truth inherent in the role. Suffering its consequences, one fathoms and exhausts its contents.”

Source : Heinrich Zimmer (2013). “Philosophies of India”, p.533, Routledge

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