“I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.” LongSelfDoneStoriesNightFocusPiecesNeededDisciplinePerformancesDetailsTheatreLeapSelf DisciplineLeap Of FaithSmall PiecesMovie Making Author:Viggo Mortensen
“Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.” DoneFeelingsCareNeeded Author:Liz Phair
“I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.” KnowsPersonsStatesDoneFeltRocksMissingNeededEmptyFolksBurnedWrecksNobody KnowsPavementRelicsLingeringHead Of StateBurned OutTroubadoursMissing A PersonBygone Days Book:Chronicles: Volume One Source: Chronicles: Volume One
“The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class – they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the stage to say something about what was happening in my country. What is exciting about what I have done since is that writing has become a weapon, some kind of ammunition.” WayWritingKindCountryDoneLightPoliticalClassMiddleStageNeededWeaponsHappeningsExcitingResponsibleShiningActivismIndianMiddle ClassPrizePrincessDarlingEmergingAmmunitionPolitical Activism Author:Arundhati Roy
“How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life – and a commitment to action. Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: ‘What's good in my life?’ and ‘What needs to be done?” NeedsTwoImportantDoneActionMotivationAsksLeadershipAbilityAnswersFireOur LivesAliveNeededCommitmentAppreciateTwo ThingsMinimum Author:Nathaniel Branden
“He was having more fun than a barrelful of monkeys.* *Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful of monkeys. It had done nothing he had considered particularly entertaining, apart from emit interesting noises, and eventually, once the noises had stopped and the monkeys were no longer doing anything at all—except possibly on an organic level—had needed to be disposed of in the dead of night.” YearsDoneNightFunInterestingLevelsNeededNoiseDisappointedEntertainingMonkeysSpiders Author:Neil Gaiman