January 2012
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December 2011
7 posts
“This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can...”
– Relevant magazine
(via Diana : megburns : haygirlhay : luciwithani)
I love this.
Also, I feel compelled to add words that were given to me by a girl I loved, a long time ago:
And you will be you where ever you go.
Two people in a race, blind-folded and running
in hot pursuit of the peace of...
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November 2011
14 posts
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“As for discipline – it’s important, but sort of over-rated. The more important...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
who, quite frankly, I adore.
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“Listen to me. You say you don’t want to tell me how to live my life? What...”
– John Prentice (as played by Sidney Poitier), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
“There’s no such thing as not playing. Music has rests in it. So you’re on a rest...”
– Tom Waits (via austinkleon)
October 2011
10 posts
How to Write an Important Novel
fwriction:
“But can you?”
“Can I what?”
“Write an important novel.”
“Of course I can. All you have to do is cut out the plot and shove in plenty of misery.”
- P.G. Wodehouse, Ice in the Bedroom
(via wwnorton)
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“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be...”
– - A bit of writing advice from Neil Gaiman. (via faramirs)
I said it on the Nerdist Podcast, and I believe it. It’s as true for any area of the arts, not just writing. Perhaps it’s true for life.
(via neil-gaiman)
Listen to the full podcast here.
Also: “Nobody cares about your first...
September 2011
15 posts
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Write Like A Motherfucker →
How many women wrote beautiful novels and stories and poems and essays and plays and scripts and songs in spite of all the crap they endured. How many of them didn’t collapse in a heap of “I could have been better than this” and instead went right ahead and became better than anyone would have predicted or allowed them to be. The unifying theme is resilience and faith. The unifying theme is...
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Q: What advice could you offer other female directors?
Francesca: To pull the trigger and make your work. Find a story that inspires you, write a story that inspires you and shoot it. Especially now that there are so many cheap digital cameras, there’s no excuse for not making work. Not to mention that I think it’s critical that more women make films, because it is such a powerful medium. So, if we are not actively telling our story with our voices as seen through our eyes, then we will just have words put in our mouth and be seen singly through the eyes of men, which is not an accurate portrayal of who we are. So, beyond our own personal need for expression or personal ambition, I think being a female filmmaker is of service in terms of leaving behind a more accurate portrayal of who we are.
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“your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the...”
– Charles Bukowski (via lostinapulseofthemind)
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Existential Musings with Cleverbot
User: I'm sad today.
Cleverbot: Don't be sad.
User: It's raining and my mother is upset with me.
Cleverbot: So you love me?
User: We've only just met.
Cleverbot: I don't believe that is true.
User: Well, we met last night.
Cleverbot: So why don't you like me?
User: I do like you.
Cleverbot: What did I do to you?
User: Nothing, we just talked.
Cleverbot: Are you handsome?
User: I'm pretty, I suppose.
Cleverbot: That's awfully vain.
User: You asked.
Cleverbot: No I did not ask. Tell me a joke.
User: Why was six afraid of seven?
Cleverbot: Because seven 8 nine.
User: Well done.
Cleverbot: Do you remember how we felt sitting by the water.
User: Like our whole lives were ahead of us.
Cleverbot: You're still weird.
User: Yeah, I am. But I like being weird.
Cleverbot: You created yourself?
User: I think we all create ourselves.
Cleverbot: If I'm a computer I don't have a mom and dad.
User: Does it make you sad that you don't have a mom and dad?
Cleverbot: Yes.
User: Don't be sad.