"I'm only really interested in taking a part if it's nothing like me."

--

Rupert Friend

“I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.”
“Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.”

Source : Janet Frame (2001). “An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd
“There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting.”
“The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.”
“People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy.”
“It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one another. Wisdom without science is unable to penetrate the full sapiential meaning of the created and the material cosmos. Science without wisdom leaves man enslaved to a world of unrelated objects in which there is no way of discovering (or creating) order and deep significance in man's own pointless existence. (p. 4)”
“In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that hopeless, meaningless world, and from somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of an ultimate purpose. At that moment a light was lit in a distant farmhouse, which stood on the horizon as if painted there, in the midst of the miserable gray of a dawning morning in Bavaria. "Et lux in tenebris lucet"-and the light shineth in the darkness.”
“So you don't have time for concealer, you have time for powder for when you start crying later about how some boy doesn't like you.”

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