"So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women."

-- Brit Marling

#Meaningful Quotes #Writing Quotes #Stronger Quotes

“Who's got two thumbs, speaks limited French and hasn't cried once today? This moi.”
“O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and the very way it should be. May I never look at the other findings until I have come to my own true conclusions: May I care for the least of the young: and become aware of the one poem that each may have written; may I be aware of what each thing is, delighted with form, and wary of the false comparison; may I never use the word "brilliant."”
“I never use a computer.”
“Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin's success. I am aware that the ideas of business as being fun and creative goes right against the grain of convention, and it's certainly not how the they teach it at some of those business schools, where business means hard grind and lots of 'discounted cash flows' and net' present values'.”
“There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and an acute inquiry into the big subjects: love, family, other animals, the nature of creativity. It is sublime. It's also very funny. Haunting and haunted, Hold Still is the memoir of an artist that is art itself.”
“What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow.”
“A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.”
“When you live with constant gratitude, your life will become a living prayer.”

Source : Barbara De Angelis (1997). “Are You the One for Me? ; Real Moments”, Fine Communications

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