"What you look at hard seems to look at you."

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Source : Gerard Manley Hopkins (1966). “A Hopkins reader: selections”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Real danger is nothing more than just living. Of course, living is merely the chaos of existence, but more than that it's a crazy mixed-up business of dismantling existence instant by instant to the point where the original chaos is restored, and taking strength from the uncertainty and the fear that chaos brings to re-create existence instant by instant. You won't find another job as dangerous as that. There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.”
“I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her.”
“The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills â€”self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter mostâ€” are the foundation for self-control.”
“I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special.”
“If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.”

Source : "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.
“After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.”
“Who you know yourself to beâ€ is simply one way of being that is available to you, and you are not stuck with that way of being.”
“For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.”

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