"Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey -- it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're done."

-- Jonathan Carroll

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“I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The deep hurt is the mirror image of the deep joy that still awaits you.”
“Great things happen when you have the courage to be yourself”
“There's generally no good reason why others should care about most of any one artist's work. The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars.”

Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.5, Image Continuum Press
“Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.”
“It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.”
“To know, is to know that you know nothing.”
“Learning is most often considered. a process of getting rather than giving. This is most evident in conceptions of student/teacher roles: Teachers give and students get. Yet, in adult learning both giving and getting are critical.”

Source : David A. Kolb, Irwin M. Rubin, Joyce Osland (1991). “Organizational behavior: an experiential approach”

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