"Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like a different kind of existence. In my life, for some of the time, I am in an alternative world, which I enter through day-dreaming or imagination. That world seems as real to me as the more tangible one of relationships and work, cars and taxes. I don't know that they're much different from each other."

-- John Marsden

#Dream Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Real Quotes

“Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.”

Source : Deb Caletti (2004). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.237, Simon and Schuster
“Good government is the outcome of private virtue.”
“Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their special function or profession.”
“Somewhere in that database my name sat in its own little niche, the name of a reject, undisciplined and worthless. Just the way I liked it.”
“We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop”
“It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.”
“After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus."”
“I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.”

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