"Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer."

-- Mark Rubinstein

#Block Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Listening Quotes

“I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.”
“I have expanded my mind and destroyed my liver but I didn't give up.”

Source : Charlie Day's Commencement Address at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, www.businessinsider.com. May 21, 2014.
“We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.”
“After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.”
“Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.”
“Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as slavery lasted.”
“I use my cell phone as much as I can - I talk to friends all the time. I'm like 2,000 hours a month. It's crazy”
“I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.”

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