"destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves."

-- Pearl S. Buck

“In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.”

Source : Loung Ung (2012). “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers”, Random House
“I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.”

Source : "An in-depth Interview With Jonathan Frakes". IGN interview, www.ign.com. July 27, 2004.
“There's never a right way to tell somebody that they've been traded.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.”
“To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.”
“I stay away from the writing part because I think that if it sticks, it sticks. You just know it. The stuff that doesn't stick, goes away. The stuff that propels you forward, you can see it in your partner's eyes.”
“Is the human race a universal constructor?”
“I was always nervous, always scared. That's stayed with me my whole life. I think it's all our genes. We're all stuck with ourselves. I wish I were calm. Never get scared, always calm, but that's not me. I panic easily.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com

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