"Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't."

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Source : Natalie Babbitt (2010). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.7, Macmillan

Natalie Babbitt

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“I've been evolving in my stunt career Stunts have always had their place, and I have to measure them now. I've done things where, if I make a mistake, I could die. You really need to look at each thing. That usually is a mechanical failure. So, I have gone from doing everything, to listening and saying, "Maybe I shouldn't do this."”
“On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.”
“Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.”
“The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and swam to San Francisco handcuffed. That made national publicity. Then, there were three or four years where I would do more difficult feats. Another birthday I towed a thousand pound boat across the Golden Gate. On my 65th Birthday I towed 65 boats a mile and a half in Tokyo. On my 70th Birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it with my feet and hands tied a mile and a half in Long Beach.... My next Birthday I will be 93. I'm gonna tow my wife across the bathtub.”
“One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.”
“Say it clearly and you make it beautiful, no matter what.”

Source : Bruce Weigl (1992). “What Saves Us”, p.68, Northwestern University Press
“Catholics are born for combat.”
“A lot of times, people say that people read to escape. But I think if you come from any community that is underrepresented, in any kind of media, whether that's around race, around class, or sexual orientation, religion, whatever it may be, sometimes you read to be affirmed. To have your humanity rendered complexly. And sometimes seeing yourself on the page is affirming. And we know that for some young people, that can also be life-saving.”

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