"I am in the continual process of transcending fear-based rituals"

-- Robert Downey, Jr.

#Process Quotes #Ritual Quotes #Transcending Quotes

“When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.”

Source : FaceBook post by Edwidge Danticat from Jul 12, 2011
“There is a study that shows that people who were asked their political opinions, when there was a picture of the American flag in the corner of the questionnaire, reported more favorable attitudes toward Republican Party positions, because the flag is typically associated in people's minds with a Republican belief set. If people vote at a polling place inside a church, they vote more Republican. If they vote at a polling place inside a school, they vote more Democrat.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has studied most - shall we call her her master - Emily Dickinson. Not in the forms, not, as such, in the music, and not in the references; but in that weird intimacy, that eerie closeness, that absolute confession of soul.... In Barnstone, too, the two worlds are intensely present, and the voice moves back and forth between them. She has the rare art of distance and closeness. It gives her her fine music, her wisdom, her form. She is a fine poet.”
“no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed”

Source : William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.125, Delacorte Press
“I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.”
“Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it is a completely different skill set.”
“But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.”
“Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.”

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