#yin

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#copying #done #encyclopedia #had #hardest

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#catch #how #human #human being #i

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#children #daughter #discuss #feels #i

Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#actor #adapting #away #being #cinema

I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#children #easy #find #i #life

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#being #emotions #exploring #like #lives

I'm not saying that 'Twilight' is, you know, some brilliant Oscar-winner, it's not 'Dr. Zhivago.' It's not trying to be. Because it is a female fantasy. I would argue that it's actually a universal fantasy. Which is, the fantasy being to be loved and cherished for exactly who you are. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#argue #because #being #brilliant #cherished

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#defying #i #idea #like #your

I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#i #me #shut #shut up #speak

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#birth #could #cry #dying #ends