"The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off."

-- Ajahn Amaro

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“Hopefully America will forgive me.”

Source : "Roundup At The Rink And On The Bobsled Track". "All Things Considered" with Robert Smith, Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 19, 2014.
“I can't even listen to Swans anymore. It doesn't do it for me at all, but I absolutely adore the early records and, on that same token, I wouldn't in any way wish for them to come back and repeat themselves.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'”
“So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, whatâ€™s around the next bend. And isnâ€™t that, in the end, what drives us?”
“It's important for all types of women to know that you don't have to fit a prototype of what one person thinks is beautiful in order to be beautiful or feel beautiful.... People think, Sexy, big breasts, curvy body, no cellulite. It's not that. Take the girl at the beach with the cellulite legs, wearing her bathing suit the way she likes it, walking with a certain air, comfortable with herself. That woman is sexy. Then you see the perfect girl who's really thin, tugging at her bathing suit, wondering how her hair looks. That's not sexy.”
“No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since, in spite of the fact that children are now comparatively sanely treated, no novelist has shown the same power of entering into the child's point of view.”
“It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very hard to have a simple idea.”
“Your actors need to trust you as a director, but normally, I think you just need to have an open communication between the actors and the director. I think the director needs to really paint his or her vision to the cast and let them know the kind of mood that he or she is making. I think that's very important.”

Source : "Interview: James Wan, Leigh Whannell Talk ‘Insidious’ & Classic Horror". Interview with Rob Frappier, screenrant.com. March 13, 2011.

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