"There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life."

-- Tara Brach

#Saying Yes Quotes #Imperfect Quotes #Messy Quotes

“My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong's record of "West End Blues" for me. I found more jazz on the radio, and began looking for records. My paper route money, and later, money I earned working after school in a print shop and a butcher shop went toward buying jazz records. I taught myself the alto saxophone and the drums in order to play in my high school dance band.”
“Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.”
“The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.”
“When we seek to complete rather than compete, it's so much easier to cheer each other on.”
“Personal style is accepting who you are.”
“Folks talk too fast, and don't understand what they talkin' about.”
“You can't be selective about freedom of speech. If you say you believe in freedom of speech you have to acknowledge the people whose views you disagree with, people whose views you may detest, nevertheless have the right to freedom of speech.”

Source : "Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten". Book by Edward Dmytryk, 1996.
“With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.”

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