#tin

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers! ↗

— Meg Cabot

#dad #dating #death #few #inspiration

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. ↗

— Herb Caen

#begins #bites #chew #cutting #first

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. ↗

— Julius Caesar

#create #creating #essence #learn #life

Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#editor #even #free #friends #giving

That's what my life is, writing songs. ↗

— John Cale

#my life #songs #writing

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters. ↗

— Bryce Dallas Howard

#act #characters #first #first thing #how

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#acquired taste #complicates #free #instinctively #left

Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show. ↗

— David Gerrold

#bizarre #course #enjoy #gets #interesting

And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a constant change of customers, and of lying down and rising up with the skeleton allotted to me for my mortal companion. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#victorian #writing-life #change

Getting bad reviews or doing something that's not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that I've earned my stripes a bit. ↗

— Greta Gerwig

#also #bad #bit #doing #earned