"Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who."

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Source : Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

Jean Hersey

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“A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.”
“How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.”
“When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.”
“To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards”
“The decisions you make can be upsetting to fans. I've experienced that, as a listener, looking at artists I've admired. It's sensitive. We really consider the idea of natural growth versus unnatural leaps.”

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“I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.”
“I'll never forget the moment I became a dad. It's hard to describe-that level of responsibility, the desire to give such joy, the clarity: Nothing is more important than this.”
“Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”

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