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"I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room."
Quote by -Barbara Kingsolver
"What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness."
Quote by -Barbara Kingsolver
"I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book."
Quote by -Barbara Kingsolver
"Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer."
Quote by -Barbara Kingsolver
"The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes."
Quote by -Barbara Kingsolver
"There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet."
Quote by -Barbara Kingsolver
"A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul."
Quote by -Barbara Kingsolver
"In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can."
Quote by -Barbara Kingsolver
"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
Quote by -Barbara Kingsolver
"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier."
Quote by -Barbara Kingsolver
"For once you must try not to shirk the facts: Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts."
Quote by -Bertolt Brecht
"He thought in other heads, and in his own, others besides himself thought"
Quote by -Bertolt Brecht
"Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there."
Quote by -Bertolt Brecht
"In the dark times will there be singing? Yes. There will be singing about the dark times."
Quote by -Bertolt Brecht
"I won't let you spoil my war for me. Destroys the weak, does it? Well, what does peace do for'em, huh? War feeds its people better."
Quote by -Bertolt Brecht
"He was weak on philosophy and an excellent driver, but his driving was a lot more dangerous than his philosophy."
Quote by -Bertolt Brecht
"What kind of times are these, when To talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?"
Quote by -Bertolt Brecht
"The rope has been torn; a knot Can tie it again, but It’s been torn. Perhaps we’ll meet again, but You won’t find me In the place where we parted ways."
Quote by -Bertolt Brecht
"The aim of science is not to open the door to everlasting truth, but to set a limit on everlasting error."
Quote by -Bertolt Brecht
"In my poetry a rhyme Would seem to me almost insolent. Inside me contend Delight at the apple tree in blossom And horror at the house-painter’s speeches. But only the second Drives me to my desk."
Quote by -Bertolt Brecht
"All the world says: yes we know what’s written in the books but now let’s see what our eyes tell us."
Quote by -Bertolt Brecht
"When the Chinese Wall was built, where'd the masons go for lunch? When Caesar conquered Gaul, was there not even a cook in the army? When the Armada sank, King Philip wept. Were there no other tears?"
Quote by -Bertolt Brecht
"Art is not a mirror held up to society but a hammer with which to shape it."
Quote by -Bertolt Brecht
"For time is short and the unknown surrounds us; and it isn't enough just to live unthinking and happy, calmly bearing oppression and only learning wisdom with age."
Quote by -Bertolt Brecht
"I got in drama class in high school and I only got in there because there were girls and I thought maybe I could make a grade above a C in something."
Quote by -Billy Bob Thornton
"LA has its own vibe. It has a charm that a lot of people overlook sometimes."
Quote by -Billy Bob Thornton
"My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too."
Quote by -Billy Bob Thornton
"Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story."
Quote by -Billy Bob Thornton
"People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies."
Quote by -Billy Bob Thornton
"[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines."
Quote by -Billy Bob Thornton
"I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it."
Quote by -Billy Bob Thornton
"I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously."
Quote by -Billy Bob Thornton
"I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music."
Quote by -Billy Bob Thornton
"When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you were an older actor whose career was over and you had to go on television."
Quote by -Billy Bob Thornton