"What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Reading Quotes #Acting Quotes

“I think to be honest, that being is inside. I meet that being in so many people that I meet everywhere in the world and when I do meet that being, in other people, what I want to ask is "How do we keep opening ourselves so that we can become as vulnerable and as willing to live in the deepest complexity and ambiguity and truth that we can?"”
“Normal adult shopping is something I will never actually do, because it's no more possible for me to go shopping like normal adults do than it is for a man with no legs to wake up one day and walk. I can't miss shopping like you'd miss things you once had. I miss it in a different way. I miss it like you would miss a train.”
“I hope you donâ€™t mind my joining you,â€ said Leanne. I minded. After all, sheâ€™d tried to kill me. A girl in a novel would say it was hard to believe, but it wasnâ€™t.”
“Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.”
“I'm more authoritarian with the orchestras than I used to be. You need to hold your ground, I've noticed, or you'll be swept aside.”

Source : "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.
“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.”
“Lleyton Hewitt... his two greatest strengths are his legs, his speed, his agility and his competitiveness.”
“You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.”

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