#rating

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#letting-go #love #loving #separating #separation

I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire. . . . When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river. ↗

— Alan Lee

#drawing #illustrating #nature #nature

This is your birthday treat, and you're supposed to enjoy it, I reminded myself. It was part of my normal existence to give myself instructions like this. Maybe other people acted and lived in total naturalness. I often wondered if they did. But me? I needed an operating manual. ↗

— Lauren Myracle

#enjoy #life-instructions #operating-manual #life

The year you were born marks only your entry into the world. Other years where you prove your worth, they are the ones worth celebrating. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#accomplishment #achieve #achievement #birth #birthday

But then self-doubt has always been there for Billy, self-doubt and its cousin the berating voice, these faithful companions have always been on call to help him through the critical junctures of his life. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#self-doubt #faith

The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting. I loved working with Judith Light and all the other actors on the show at that time. ↗

— Michael Storm

#exciting #gordon #head #i #light

Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#dive #enjoyed #exhilarating #going #high

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#being #boxed #circle #constructions #east

Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#everyone #exists #horrible #horrible things #liberating

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#grating #i #interested #like #little