#yin

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#also #believe #broken #care #complicated

I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be. ↗

— Crystal Waters

#became #big #diva #holding #holding on

In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#any #eighteen #focus #getting #going

I think mp3s are great if you are unknown and trying to get started. It's a good way to get your music out and about. But for those who are established, it's not good at all. ↗

— Crystal Waters

#established #get #good #good way #great

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. ↗

— Graham Greene

#fiction #journalists #keep #more #more and more

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness. ↗

— Graham Greene

#bit #god #i #kindness #love

Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#between #clash #frequently #go #i

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#i #just #looking #me #perfect

It's a mental battle trying to come back from injuries and I don't feel like having that mental battle with myself. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#battle #come #feel #having #i

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. ↗

— Robert Greenleaf

#communicate #many #much #saying #too