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“Time was as fluid as a river. Waiting for something exciting made time crawl on its knees, and working on deadline made time sprint.” - Karen McQuestion Six months ago, I finally owned up to the fact that without deadlines, nothing happens. I started Things to Realize in July of
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“Every great film should seem new every time you see it.” - Roger Ebert I wrote about how much I love watching and rewatching movies earlier this month: Movies and Life“Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves.” - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Art is the most important
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I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of. - Henry Rollins We think of education as a process of gaining knowledge and information. Education is portrayed as an increase of knowledge. We go
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At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. — Friedrich Nietzsche The problem with inspirational quotes
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“Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves.” - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Art is the most important thing we as humans do. Art is how we say to ourselves and everyone after us, “We are!” Art is the peak of human creativity, and as we move through time,
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Only the Best People Have It!
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Oh so pleasant
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The only true voyage of discovery… would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes. - Marcel Proust Last week I took a side road into fiction land, and put out the first part of a multipart story, called Moon’s Gift. One thing about having no
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Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance. - Attributed by some to Gautama Buddha. I am going a different direction with the newsletter for the next couple of editions. As I reviewed my backlog for what to write this week, the items and themes coalesced into an idea for
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Almost Famous, and Frankly, Not Famous
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Consider this anecdote, from a piece written by Mark Twain in Harper’s Monthly, September, 1895, called “Mental Telegraphy: A Manuscript with a History”: Of course I have grown superstitious about this letter-crossing business—this was natural. We stayed awhile in Venice after leaving Heidelberg. One day I was going
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From Alyssa Brandt in The New Yorker, What Does Writing Smell Like? I was on my way to Everything Mason Jars one day when I saw a fancy-candle store. I’ve been wanting a fancy candle for some time, so I popped in. Sandra (not her real name): Hi, welcome