“It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 138 of 303
“To discover what you really believe, pay attention to the way you act -- and to what you do when things don't go the way you think they should. Pay attention to what you value. Pay attention to how and on what you spend your time. Your money. And pay attention to the way you eat.”
“I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.”
“The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.”
“Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.”
“My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.”
“It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.”
“What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have”
“I don't have the story finished and ready when we start work on a film. I usually don't have the time. So the story develops when I start drawing storyboards. I never know where the story will go but I just keeping working on the film as it develops. It's a dangerous way to make an animation film and I would like it to be different, but unfortunately, that's the way I work and everyone else is kind of forced to subject themselves to it.”
“My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.”
“In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.”
“Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.”
“Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts”
“It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections.”
“Women know not the whole of their coquetry.”
“We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.”
“There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.”
“We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.”
“The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.”
“Brains are not everything.”