Bram van Velde Quotes
They make you and you have no say in it. It’s w:Godot all the time. A chain around your neck and the whip cracking behind you.
Bram van Velde
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The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.
Edmund Barton
When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story, the story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I'm struggling with - my own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
Al Pacino
Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.
Donald Miller
The mental state I'm in is completely different, but the act of trying to write is the same. I mean, in all instances you try to write good sentences. But in a novel you're free to do whatever you want, and in the autobiographical works you can't make things up.
Paul Auster
I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.
Sandra Cisneros
When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'
Sarah Louise Delany