"You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu."

-- Karen Russell

#Children Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I don't believe it is in the state's interest to industrialize our ridge lines.”
“The lies are in different places.”
“Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.”

Source : "Shakespeare and me: Zoe Wanamaker" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2012.
“Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is to disrupt the total order of the universe. Reverence will be total or it will not be at all. The universe does not come to us in pieces any more than a human individual stands before us with some part of his/her being.”
“As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. â€¦ That is why people are always searching for a meaning to lifeâ€¦ Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.”

Source : "Awareness: Conversations with the Masters".
“In fact, now for whatever reason, if we're recording in the same room, I get a little distracted because I'm watching the actor instead of listening to the actor. The way we do it now, they're on the phone, and we're sitting here with scripts in front of us taking notes seriously and marking takes and doing some adlibs. I can really focus on the words and not the surroundings.”

Source : Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.
“In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood.”
“Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.”

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