"Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being."

--

Jhumpa Lahiri

#Mind Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Way Quotes

“One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. I can't stress enough how important it is, if you are interested at all in painting, to look and to look a great deal at painting. There is no other way to find out about painting.”
“I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing--working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world were like that!”

Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan
“Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.”

Source : "Lily Rabe’s Master Class". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2011.
“The challenge of the believer is to take the faith that you got in here and take it to the place out there.”
“I'd like to think that I have a plan, but you can't really pick what scripts you're going to get or what movie is going to come along.”
“The only advice that I know to give is to pray for your leaders. Whether you like it or not, we have a new president. As a church body, we need to remember these leaders, whether they are in office or not. Leaders in the workplace or the church, we need to remember them because they face some really hard decisions. So we need to pray for wisdom and peace and understanding and for patience, and for any and everything really because they're going to need it. So let's just gather around them and pray that God's will be done on earth, versus someone's agenda.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night in his comfortless attic, might perchancebe aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?”
“Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.”

Source : Jessye Norman (2014). “Stand Up Straight and Sing!”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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