May 2013
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Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People 2013:... →
Do you need to know where your character is headed?
“Dive in. I’m on the roller coaster. It’s much more fun when I don’t know the twists and turns. In life you don’t have that luxury either. You have an idea and a hope, but you don’t know where your life is going to go. So I just sign onto that. A very human experience. I just gave into it. Take me away, tell...
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In Conversation: Vince Gilligan →
“But this is not a show about evil for evil’s sake. Walt has behaved at times in what could be regarded as an evil fashion, but I don’t think he’s an evil man. He is an extremely self-deluded man. We always say in the writers’ room, if Walter White has a true superpower, it’s not his knowledge of chemistry or his intellect, it’s his ability to lie to himself. He is the world’s greatest liar....
Telling →
“How perpetual and humbling it is, that the older he gets, the more it seems that what I want to change in him is actually what needs to change in me.”
On the importance of documenting the everyday
“I assume that in ten years, I’ll be interested in remembering the details of this time in my life. But what I am always pleasantly surprised by is how much this project means to me in the present.”
April 2013
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Fear of doing it wrong = not doing it at all →
”I love what I do for a living, and I really do believe it’s exactly what I should be doing, but I always thought I’d eventually make room in my life for stuff that isn’t specifically for a client or a product. I don’t even necessarily mean stepping away from the computer entirely, I just mean working on things where I am the ‘client.’
You know what? IT’S REALLY HARD. Not...
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“Look, I know you think she was the one, but I don’t. I think you’re...”
– 500 Days of Summer
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On Beauty, Zadie Smith
The Belsey children repaired to a nearby cafe. They sat on stools lined up against the windowpane, looking out over the blasted heath of Boston Common. They caught up with each other’s news casually, leaving long, cosy gaps of silence in which to go to work on their muffins and coffees. Jerome—after two months of having to be witty and brilliant in a strange town among...
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Some thoughts on the real world by one who... →
Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.. Having an enviable career is one thing, and being a happy person is another. Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an...
The ring comes off →
Have you ever noticed how sometimes it seems easier to be tied down than to float on?
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Roger Ebert →
When this piece on Roger Ebert’s battle with cancer was published in Esquire three years ago, I read it twice and cried both times. He passed away today. I remembered the article, looked for it, read it again—three times. Still teary-eyed.
I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear, he writes in a journal entry titled...
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Biz Ladies profile: Sarah Ryhanen of Saipua →
“Sometimes I think people think too much about starting their own business rather than just doing it. If you think about it too much, you allow yourself to entertain the what-ifs, and then you’ll end up in a downward spiral of doubt. You only get one go-around in this game. I wish I had more specific constructive advice, but really I feel that sometimes people just need a push off the edge....
March 2013
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“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there...”
– Frida Kahlo
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“Just start doing things, try them out. You might make mistakes and that is okay....”
– Lotta Jansdotter
January 2013
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December 2012
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“Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all...”
– Steve Martin
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November 2012
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