Rebecca Stead Quotes
I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.
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First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.
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I am not a normal man.
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Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
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What are you going to do now? You'll collect loves like stamps. You've got doubles and no one will trade with you. And you've got damaged ones
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Call me a slag. If it means being a strong woman, I'll gladly be that.
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With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.
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There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance.
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She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.
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You don't know how to take off your suit of armor. You have no idea how to conduct yourself without the reference point of your own security... You can expose your wounds and flesh, your sore points. You can be completely raw and exposed.
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Start small - if you drink soda, stop drinking soda. You don't have to make every single change at once or overnight, you can make them slowly to adjust to figure out what works for your body, there is no formula and there is also no right or wrong.
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Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.
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And then we all just started laughing. We laughed our asses off. But I knew that really, all three of us were crying. And I knew there would be tears inside of us all our lives. Because they just left. We were even worth a good-bye. Yeah, there would always be tears inside of us. Because there was an empty space inside the three of us that would always belong to the parent who had refused to love us.
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Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened.
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Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.
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I don't feel any pressure. I'm not nervous about going out there and pitching.
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Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.
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I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.
