"I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as a way of expressing my feelings, because I didn't have any other outlet."

-- Matt de la Pena

#Feelings Quotes #Style Quotes #Way Quotes

“A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.”

Source : Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.187, Random House
“Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.”
“Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.”

Source : Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.218, Pan Macmillan
“I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or required. You may easily disguise it, so that it is only recognized much later, when the story and the characters have faded into darkness.”
“I believe the human spirit is indomitable...”
“A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.”
“We very quickly forget about the wonderful things we've got. People lose their excitement because there's too much. Basically we're experiencing nothing, because everything is available to us.”
“I don't want to sound mystical but sometimes when you take a picture - when the sets are in place - then something takes over and leads you. It's this sense of extraordinary luck and chance. The shoot is blessed and charmed, and you make pictures that you couldn't in your wildest dreams have imagined. That is the magic of photography.”

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