#about

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#acceptance #equality #greater #just #marriage

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#also #exploitation #failings #friendship #help

I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#everything #hanks #hannah #i #learned

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#anything #being #expected #far #great

So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#anymore #bit #career #did #down

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#african #annoying #being #cowboy #cowboy hat

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#back #book #comes #doing #goes

I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#better #domestic #even #feel #happier

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#few #few people #pain #people #pleasure

When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#any #childhood #did #ever #felt