"The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading."

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Mem Fox

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“Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.”
“I would say that it's very difficult to personally construct your gender. I think a lot of it is socially constructed. If you look at The New York Times' coverage of trans children, some of them were as young as four years old. One said, "I see my daddy in the woodshed, and that's where I'd rather be than in the kitchen." That to me doesn't ring as somebody who is trans, it rings as someone who has grown up with a narrow view.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.”
“What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind?”

Source : Orville Dewey (1838). “Discourses on Human Life”, p.97
“I think the birds in the area are dying laughing watching me try not to crash.”

Source : Cynthia Hand (2011). “Unearthly”, p.152, Egmont UK
“I try to be more goofy when I'm on set now that I'm more comfortable. In real life, I'm so goofy and super weird. I'm never mean but people don't see the weird side of me.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“When you get to work with great people like on our movie, Blake and Ellen Burstyn and Harrison and Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, the first minute or two it's like, 'Oh my God, I'm working with you,or Harrison,' people you've admired for so long, after like five minutes you realize we're all trying to do the same thing, we all have a passion for telling good stories and we're going to try to make the story the best possible.”

Source : Source: screenrant.com
“I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.”

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