"The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around."

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Source : Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.310, Scholastic Inc.

Bill Konigsberg

#Life Quotes #Axes Quotes #People Quotes

“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -”
“There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.”
“I think in most cases, if you're with good people, comedy creation happens faster in collaboration. That's how I can tell if it's a good collaboration: If it's faster than me by myself, then it works. If it's slower than me by myself, then I get out of the room.”
“So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!”

Source : Brian Jacques (2005). “Lord Brocktree: A Tale from Redwall”, p.9, Penguin
“Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.”
“It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.”
“I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds.”
“I actually enjoy that I never really needed to be hanging out with every celebrity in Hollywood; I just go home and hang out with my cousins, my best friends. I'm not treated like royalty; they love me to death, but they don't treat me like royalty. So it's easy for me; they'll tell me the truth, whether it hurts or not. And I need that; I've always been given that.”

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