#tin

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man. ↗

— Alvin Ailey

#gentle #impression #lasting #man #sad

I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#about #act #acting #chance #director

Excuse me? Tonight you represent every dateless woman in this city, every woman who's about to sit down to a lonely meal of Weight Watchers past primavera she's just nuked in the microwave. Every woman who will get into bed tonight with a book or reruns of Sex and the City as her only companion. You are our shining hope....But no pressure. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#humor #dating

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this. ↗

— Steve Albini

#betrays #him #his #hubris #i

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#always #anyhow #battling #because #getting

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#across #always #being #clear #common

Mars is there, waiting to be reached. ↗

— Buzz Aldrin

#reached #waiting

Everything in life is a story just waiting to be written. ↗

— M.G. Marsh

#life #writing #inspirational

Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#inspirational #life #inspirational

Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment. ↗

— Mary Gaitskill

#inspiration #readers #vision #writing #inspirational