"'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films."

-- Mackenzie Davis

#Magazines Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Students Quotes

“Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.”
“Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finishes up.”
“Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.”
“The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.”
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
“I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.”

Source : "Dionne Warwick: Living for Now". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.
“Different people are afforded different opportunities. I've been given some awesome opportunities, and I feel that I've always knocked them out of the park. But I've always been scaled back after that.”
“I don't understand the feeling of, the way people speak of writing as though it were, like, some kind of djinn to be summoned or like it's the Loch Ness monster or seeing a shooting star. It's a physical act. It is a thing you do with your muscles and your body and your willpower. Watch, I'll show you: get a piece of paper. Get a pencil. Put the pencil on the paper and write the word 'something.'”

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