"Writing is a bit like walking into a big bookstore. It's the bookstore of your brain, and you know you're never going to read all those books. It makes you happy you're in the bookstore, and you're nervous because you know you're never going to read all those books. So the nervousness is also happy. Once I get going writing poetry is one of the happiest things I do, but it is also fraught with all of these anxieties."

-- Mary Jo Salter

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“I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always tried to be the least pretty I could be.”
“With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.”
“I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister.”
“All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.”

Source : Jo Walton (2003). “Tooth and Claw”, p.139, Macmillan
“Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.”

Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.
“I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.”
“Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.”

Source : Source: www.aboutfilm.com
“In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while relinquishing things that do not matter to us. A lukewarm yearning for awakening is not enough to sustain us through the difficulties involved in letting go. It is important to understand that anything that can be lost was never truly ours, anything that we deeply cling to only imprisons us.”

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