"A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding its resonance and beauty so great as to demand another reading. As I read, I found myself devastated by the thoroughness of the book's annihilating sensibility and revived by the beauty of its language, the complexity of its design, the melancholy, horror and stoic sympathy in its rendering of what we used to call the human condition."

-- Michael Silverblatt

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Design Quotes

“If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.”
“What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within so that they don't hold back anything. You never ever want someone to go, 'Oh I shouldn't have done that.' There isn't anything you shouldn't try. If it's terrible, who cares?”
“The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.”

Source : Frances Moore Lappé (1971). “Diet for a Small Planet”
“I just want to keep people entertained.”
“I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I did Casual, I just let myself put on weight because he's a schoolteacher. He's not meant to be muscle-y.”
“Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it.”
“It's not enough to be talented. It's not enough to work hard and to study late into the night. You must also become intimately aware of the methods you use to reach your decisions.”

Source : Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.16, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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