"A fruit is not afraid of its own weight. It grows into its skin fully. It is whole, each part of its body equally alive."

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Source : Gayle Brandeis (2009). “Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write”, p.180, Zondervan

Gayle Brandeis

#Fear Quotes #Skins Quotes #Fruit Quotes

“Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.”
“It wasn't a case of me sitting down and thinking, right then, what shall I do with my life? Airline pilot? Plumber? Guitar manufacturer? Writer .... yeah, writer. I've always loved writing, from a very early age--I guess I was writing my first stories when I was still in single digits. It progressed, and the love of writing grew in my mind and is still growing. Doing it full-time, there are different stresses and tensions, and the business side of it comes to the fore sometimes. But I still love it, and I'm always thankful that I can do what I do and make a living from it.”
“Weirdly also listening to a lot of Aphex Twin again, I loved Syro.”
“Sometimes you're a little too close for comfort, and I think anybody can relate to that, whether you're in college or just moving out on your own.”
“Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.”
“I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high school teaching - and I do enjoy it, at least sometimes. But I find it incredibly anxiety-producing and exhausting. Privacy is more congenial, and I go a little crazy if I can't spend a big chunk of every day, or almost every day, alone. Certainly I have to be alone to write.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!”
“An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them is quite likely to dismiss his business. Success is the sum of detail. It might perhaps be pleasing to imagine oneself beyond detail and engaged only in great things, but as I have often observed, if one attends only to great things and lets the little things pass the great things become little; that is, the business shrinks.”

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