"Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning."

-- James McBride

#Writing Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Fats Quotes

“I could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have a more interesting - and longer - career.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Always remember that if you give up in life, life didn't give up on you, you gave up on life.”
“An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be accurately empathic is something which can be developed by training. Therapists, parents and teachers can be helped to become empathic. This is especially likely to occur if their teachers and supervisors are themselves individuals of sensitive understanding. It is most encouraging to know that this subtle, elusive quality, of utmost importance in therapy, is not something one is "born with", but can be learned, and learned most rapidly in an empathic climate.”
“Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food.. stay away from these”
“So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.110, Pan Macmillan
“If you ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer is, "You are.”
“If your shirt isn't tucked into your pants, then your pants are tucked into your shirt.”
“Daniel Day-Lewis is particularly a sort of beacon I've been following for some time. For God's sake, I'm not even in his league but he inspires me because he's not interested in playing himself; he's only interested in playing other people and the whole thing is like an adventure for him, it seems to me. It's some kind of spiritual exploration, which is an amazing, noble thing.”

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