Miriam Toews Quotes

Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand what I've experienced, what I've felt and seen, so it becomes a little easier to handle. On the other hand, I don't want it to be just a cathartic experience, an outpouring of grief or whatever it is.

Miriam Toews

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GriefExperienceMeChaosWriting

Quitting doesn't enter my mind.

Jimmy Buffett

MindQuittingEnter

I want to be invisible.

Megan Fox

WantInvisible

I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

Michael Haneke

WorkEnoughI CanCreateLuckyNeed

Listening sounds like a ridiculous characteristic for mentoring, but genuinely being invested and interested in people, meeting them for cups of coffee and spending time with people, and using the network I've been very lucky to build up to help others are all things I do to help others.

Sinead Burke

TimeCoffeeHelp OthersPeopleHelp

Filming is always a challenge because I'm not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I'm not technically brilliant, but it's the spirit that counts.

Martin Parr

ChallengeSpiritBrilliantAlways

My first commercial ever was a Dr. Pepper commercial. And then I did a Mountain Dew commercial. A lot of soft drinks.

Milo Ventimiglia

MountainFirstDewSoftPepperDid

Consciousness, when it's unburdened by the body, is something that's ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and that's the meta-nature of our consciousness; we know that we know that we know, and that's such a delicious feeling, but when it's unburdened by biology and entropy, it becomes more than delicious: it becomes magical.

Jason Silva

MindBodyBiologyFeelingKnowMore

The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly.

Douglas Coupland

HistoryTimeExperienceSillyKind

I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

Brian Eno

HelpYouClumsyLikeHeMoved

I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.

Antony Beevor

I AmSomeoneFindHistoricalGoing

I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and I saw - we talk about crumbling bridges - I saw one, concrete literally falling onto the underpass below, threatening auto traffic.

Anthony Foxx

BridgesTrafficTalkConcreteSaw

I really love my work, so wherever it takes me, I'm happy to be.

Alfred Enoch

WorkLoveHappyMeWhereverTakes

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